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First official British work on tanks was carried out by the Navy...
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You'd only be able to hear from 3m away, rather than from 30m.
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It helps to point people toward trustworthy, accessible sources like Wikipedia, The Conversation, The Guardian, CBC, BBC, Bellingcat, not because they are always right but because they are self correcting
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Sure. ITV, C4 and Sky have impartiality rules too. And we need to get tough on the platforms: just not right (for example) that X is blithely breaking its legal commitments to protect customers from racism and remove it from its platform. But I think you underplay the impact of a properly funded BBC
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My two pre-teen/teens have very little idea how anything IT-related works. They rely on their Gen-X dad to get stuff working...
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5/ Putin’s theory of victory depends on the Western alliance backing Ukraine abandoning Ukraine as a necessary condition to bring about this scale of advance.
Russia is very unlikely to seize half of Ukraine if the international coalition continues supporting Ukraine. isw.pub/UkrWar060625
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Regarding date of formation: so what? Germany as a unified state didn't exist before 1860s. The Republic of Ireland didn't exist before 1916. The first Slovak Republic dates back to 1939, but in its current form is much younger.
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Ultimately I think this approach - which perhaps also means re-configuring some sports - is the way to go. Boxing of course already has a version of this with weight divisions so it's not a completely alien idea.
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The article on Peters - required reading on palaeontological crankery and how this researcher (originally a respected and very talented artist) descended into egomaniacal anti-science - is here... tetzoo.com/blog/2020/7/...
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Absolutely. But there's been a sort of horrible arms race between interviewers and interviewees which mean that most interviews now consist largely of stupid answers to stupid questions. Or that's how it feels to me, anyway.
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Which is super-annoying, but part of the core skillset for even quite junior politicians.