(1)The US landed x2 Hercules w/100 troops +2 helicopters in Iran to rescue the second F-15 pilot. The (heavy) Hercules got stuck in the sand , so the US blew them + the helicopters up + flew in x3 lighter transport planes to get everyone out - almost repeated this ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

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Matthew Alford digs out the PhD thesis, on Lord Byron's poetry, from Birmingham University of Prof Mohammad Marandi. In it, he finds insights into the mind of the man who's become "the most well-known Iranian spokesperson in the Western world". More here: drmattalford.substack.com/p/the-forgot...

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The report of the Commission on Ethnic and Racial Disparities (the "Sewell Report") was published 5 years ago today. I wrote this then: "It is almost impossible to find a topic on which someone with acknowledged expertise has not demolished the report’s analysis" bylinetimes.com/2021/04/09/r...

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This incoherent word salad is the best Mahmood's defenders can do. Apparently there are too many immigrants here so we need remigration, so we need to extend the period to settlement (??), but net migration may be negative and we may have too few migrants (??) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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