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British-Canadian dual national, living in Canada. Husband and dad. Mathematician, with a Geophysics Ph.D. Chess player, skier, squash player, model rocketeer
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www.bbc.com/news/article... “Even wars have rules”

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The Trump/RFK Jr tag-team are doing a full on assault on public health. Please read my reflection about what is at stake by opening the door to a viral predator like measles. With lessons from Camus. charlieangus.substack.com/p/going-wild...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o... “Trumpism is about ego, appetite and acquisitiveness and is driven by a primal aversion to the higher elements of the human spirit — learning, compassion, scientific wonder, the pursuit of justice.”

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o... “Producing something this stupid is not the work of a day; it is the achievement of a lifetime — relying on decades of incuriosity, decades of not cracking a book, decades of being impervious to evidence.”

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b... “Currently, most American factories cannot match China’s manufacturing capability, capacity and speed even if the tariffs eat into its cost advantages.”

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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o... Interesting article on the links between the 1930s “Technocracy” movement and today’s DOGE - including a family connection.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... “Trump called Wednesday Liberation Day, but Stagnation Day might be more like it.”

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

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www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...

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Edward Teller, father of the H bomb, addressing the API in 1959: “Carbon dioxide has a strange property. It transmits visible light but it absorbs the infrared radiation which is emitted from the earth. Its presence in the atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect.”

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BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

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www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/w...

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

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Tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of the maple leaf Canadian flag. I am glad to be part of this proud moment and supporting ongoing Canadian sovereignty!

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www.bbc.com/news/live/c4...

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Does it sometimes feel as if the last 80 years were a pleasant dream in which many of us lived our entire lives, and that we are waking up now to the brutal Nazi reality?

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Thought provoking article about, among other things, the reasons people conduct “anticipatory obedience” as an authoritarian regime gains traction: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

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Trump's proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

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Very, very interesting thread!

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