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Day 304, Mar 31, Mon: I love the details Powell drops in. The sneezing marine with the head cold. Makes it all seem real… and even though you might have just been to an important hush-hush meeting, the snotty handkerchief drying on the radiator brings you back down to Earth. #anthonypowelltogether

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Day 302, Mar 29, Sat: I know we’re in the middle of a book series… but Powell really chucks us in at the deep end with his openings. There’s no gentle warm-up. Immediately we’re in the thick of something and you somehow have to get your bearings. He must think we can handle it #anthonypowelltogether

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Insurance is always the canary in the mine. If this is what insurers are saying... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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I watched a 'Peanuts' animated cartoon the other day, and was reminded that I still use several words/phrases that I picked up from Charlie Brown et al as a child: notably "good grief", "crabby" and "rats".

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'Europe is not only home to our traditional allies; it is an enviable zone of democracy, wealth and prosperity with which it benefits us to have good relations, and from which we can sometimes learn' Snyder on the new US imperialism open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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I'm reading a book about old English roots of the English language and just found out that 'thrall' was a word that meant slave, which remains in English to this day in 'enthralled', i.e. enslaved.

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www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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