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Noi eravamo ancora al tronco attesi,/credendo ch'altro ne volesse dire,/quando noi fummo d'un romor sorpresi, We were still waiting by the trunk, believing that there was something else it wished to say, when we were surprised by an uproar,

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6 years

@Jar_O_Cats Yes! And here's a pic of my 91 year old ma standing up for gay right to marry in Ireland (won). "All of our children equally should have the chance to marry the person they want to spend the rest of their life with" (quote in article)

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1 year

This is always worth a RT. The truth is simple.

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4 years

@sandybatchelor @jo_leeeee Where do you buy your lingerie?

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6 years

@AlohaTimAloha The American objection to swearing baffles us in Ireland - a sweary land - given everything you do tolerate e.g. mass shootings of children while they are at school. 🤷‍♀️

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6 years

@Jar_O_Cats She died a year later of cancer but she saw the fight won. Still miss her. She was a legend. Wishing you well in America.

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6 years

@Channel4News The time Margaret Mead went to the same island as male anthropologists who had completely misread female-only menstrual ceremonies as shame-based isolation when in fact the women were having parties. She went, they couldn't. Their interpretation was wrong.

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5 years

@tweetandshort @bbcquestiontime @Bonn1eGreer The Poles here in Ireland talk about the nightmare of being Polish in England & the abuse they get. A man was beaten to death for speaking Polish. How can you be so blind?!

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4 years

@JamesOKeefeIII @Project_Veritas @USPS The scent of desperation lol.

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2 years

@KarenAdamMSP It’s fairly obvious that in the hiring process they select for hard right, inhumane, hating-the-poor people. That’s what the government wants to make it hell for people on benefits. They don’t appear to have the same attitude towards corrupt politicians et al.

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1 year

@ToryFibs You need to start putting "Labour" in quotes because it really isn't the UK Labour Party anymore, is it?

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4 years

@KellyQuilt Walking down street I spotted my cat Hamish looking oddly ruffled (as if he had licked his hair backwards). I called to him. Neighbour leaning on gate said “he won’t respond, he’s wild but I feed him daily”. That’s my cat! I said. Hamish looked caught out.

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3 years

@spectator Guaranteed quality from the Spectator.

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3 years

@fbunational @FBUNWC This happened in Catalonia. The firefighters protected the people from the police.

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7 months

@ToryFibs I watched that without sound & her face is contorted with rage & hatred.

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4 years

@antoni_UK Brilliant. Feeling slightly less bad for doing fuck all in second lockdown Ireland.

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3 months

He looks like a King of Faerie in human guise. (Found him as he followed me.) This is something that happens to writers from time to time. You meet your characters living in the world. #magic #Faerie

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5 years

@ottocrat @HomoSacer3 From an outsider’s POV (Ireland) there has been an orchestrated campaign vs Corbyn since he won the first leadership ballot & the UK media has been at the forefront of it including the BBC. It has created irrational fear of him.

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5 years

@slothanova Assassination of JFK. My Dad woke us all up to tell us. He was very important to Irish Catholics. There was a photo of him praying in our school classroom alongside the Pope. 😳

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6 years

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4 years

@suneetmahandru @bopinion Actually, given their population number & density, check out the number of cases compared to America & the death rate. Nowhere near as “terrible” as USA.

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2 years

@kerrigantweet @TadhgHickey “How does it feel to be black and Irish?” he was asked. “Like a pint of Guinness,” he said.

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6 years

@real_farmacist You can teach art, religion, politics etc to children. The best thing you can encourage in them is self-confidence & the ability to think for themselves. Going vs convention & authority takes courage. Her parents weren't in the classroom. She did it alone. 👏

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4 years

@medichulston “You’ll want to cover with rose petals all medical workers’ steps.” (Italian writer Francesca Milandri, Letter from your future)

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4 years

Isn’t it strange that UK media showed the devastating horror & tragedy of Italy on a daily basis & yet even though UK numbers are similar or greater the same intensity & scrutiny doesn’t exist? #COVID19

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4 years

@CNN The reversal isn’t what’s shocking. The original refusal to follow the law is. 🙄

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4 years

@woohookittys @chrisilluminati Pretty sure this shit was being said back when seat belts were first enforced. #covidiots

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2 years

@jk_rowling @suzanne_moore Yes constantly attacking one of the smallest & most vulnerable minority groups in our society is definitely a step backwards & not the feminism I’ve espoused since the 1970s.

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1 year

@SocialistHB @TravelodgeUK Jaze big f'n deal.

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3 months

Kino, I met the King of Faerie at Itabashi Library. He gave me a copy of his book about his magical adventures in Ireland. A storyteller & musician, he can speak Irish. #Japan #IrelandinJapan

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3 years

She actually says outright "look at Ireland" for the way NOT to do it. We just don't have a government with the same will & intelligence. #lockdownIreland

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6 years

@denisekingsmill @whippletom @OliBarrett A film with Benedict Cumberbatch playing him. What an amazing man! Thank you for this.

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1 year

@brigidrithilly In Ireland, cycle lanes appear to be confused with parking spaces.

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6 years

@jayhunt10 @NealDM86 @RichardDawkins

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4 years

@havoth @Nicholastrad They're not ponies, they're horses. The Mongol horse breeds are small, strong, hardy descendants of the war horses of Chinghis Khan. Google is your friend. :)

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4 years

@subcircle England is the only country in the world worrying about getting house cleaners & nannies back to work. Is this class society in a nutshell or what? 🤦‍♀️ #COVID19

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11 months

@Luighseach For starters, very little happens to men here who assault, rape or murder women. Look at Larry Murphy wandering around free simply because he didn't have time to kill her. And he's just one example. Sick justice system needs overhauling.

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2 years

@EricMor62243048 @markrowantree Scottish independence is as inevitable as a united Ireland. Whether one is in favour or not, it is simply a matter of time.

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1 year

@TheOculusOnline @NemoAugustus He, Zuckerberg & Musk are 3 great evils on the planet (with the sensitivity & survival power of cockroaches) but people worship them for making large amounts of money. No wonder we’re fucked.

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6 years

@RidgeOnSunday @ChukaUmunna Loathed by Labour members, loved by media both for same reason: anti-Corbyn.

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4 years

@SkyNews Hmm do you all believe he has it? Nixon proved that appearing ill or frail can lessen the blow of blame. Honestly wouldn’t put it past Johnson & the Tories. “Mild symptoms” which he’ll recover from & come out a hero? Just a thought.

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4 years

@jeremyherb "Mr Biden"? Correct protocol is either Vice-President or President-Elect Biden, is it not? The state of her, like all Trumpers, venal right up to the finish.

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4 years

@anne_theriault The thing that drives me crazy is every film including the latest with Saoirse Ronan giving her a Scottish accent. She grew up in France, her first language was French. Is it even possible to adopt a Scottish accent? I dinnae think so.

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4 years

@brokenbottleboy I remember this. Smug, sickening laughter. And funny how it’s always white people who say “I don’t see the racism here”.

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1 year

We are at least an hour outside her house with the van playing her music. We cried, we sang, we danced. #SineadOConnor #Bray

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3 years

@GetTheFabulous Where’s the waking up at noon because you went to bed at dawn.🦉 FFS. Try to be inclusive.

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4 years

Very late breakfast in my little back garden. I’m on Covid time. Get out of bed when I feel like it. I laugh when people say keep to your normal routine. There’s nothing normal about this, why should I be? Semi-cocooned in Bray. #wicklow #COVID19ireland

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1 year

@Katsikajules @JewishChron He's slowly but surely dismantling the UK Labour Party. Tragic to see.

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2 years

@irishexaminer And let’s not forget it was Tony Holohan, the supposed saint of Covid, who oversaw the scandal & tried to prevent the enquiry into it. But we never name & shame in Ireland, do we?

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3 years

@ReutersWorld 💔 The world we live in. If they’re this desperate they’re refugees, not “migrants”. You’re a human being; think like one before you tweet.

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4 years

@JOEdotie @LeoVaradkar I didn’t enjoy watching that. 😔 Unlike Varadkar, I feel for vulnerable people.

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3 years

@alisonkatebr @micheal_olainn Children wear masks at Hallowe’en & parties with no bother. They are more resilient & adaptable than adults. It’s the “adults” who are carrying on. 🙄

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4 years

@devisridhar @micheal_olainn Why do the West & Western commentators steadfastly ignore the successful Asian countries? Viet Nam zero deaths. South Korea under control without total lockdown at any time. Is it that we cannot learn from Asians? Their success denies our superiority?

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7 months

@DmodosCutter In civilised countries that is called theft.

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3 years

So I’ve decided to refuse the 2nd AstraZeneca shot. The first was horrific & I’ve heard 2nd is worse. Two friends have made tsame decision, all of us separately. Sister in Toronto got Pfizer for 2nd shot when AZ suspended in Ontario. #AstraZeneca

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4 years

@WestminsterWAG Yeah you’re worried about vulnerable kids 🙄

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4 years

@DanielRosney @mconway70 When she did the after hours personal phone-in question & answer about lockdown & virus, many of her people rang to tell her to go to bed and get some rest. 🥰

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6 years

@ZonePhysics This is why women live longer than men.

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3 years

@SenerisYt @PatrickKingsley @RajaAbdulrahim Check out NY Times latest with British soldier gunfire somehow “unfolding” to kill 14 unarmed civilians in Northern Ireland (“Bloody Sunday” anniversary).

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5 years

While UK media are busy attacking Corbyn they are not pointing out the truth. A Tory win means sell-off of the NHS to America, a no-deal Brexit, and a return of the Irish border & violence here. The stuff of nightmares.

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3 months

He's so tall - being of The Gentry - I will have to include the joking photograph.

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2 years

Evidence now out about massive US hard right funding of Ottawa truckers protest. Are we surprised. They tried the same thing with our abortion referendum to no avail. The experience of being colonised can be a good inoculation vs foreign interference. #TrudeauWasRight

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5 years

@wookieebushclm @justrynnabeme "Behold a pale horse." From the Book of Revelation also known as ... The Apocalypse

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2 years

@elizabe30042418 @wayward122 @KolozsyShawn @ReinstateTrump What Epstein lost in prison.

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4 years

@RedWoman1552 @NicholasTyrone While Johnson was so terrified he bailed.

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6 years

@ne_grant Why did they announce it & make the child different? Do they announce every immigrant child arriving?

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4 years

Feck, beginning to feel like an agoraphobic paranoid eejit for declining dinner parties including Christmas. But how is it suddenly safer to be indoor with others just because it's Christmas?! I want to be alive for the vaccine & my life afterwards! #NPHET

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3 years

@JonathanTurley “Burn the witch” has always been the easier option. Leaves powerful men untouched, male privilege & the patriarchy intact.

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4 years

@JBrowsa @KellyQuilt Exactly, he looked like a ragamuffin who’d been living on the streets. I said “Hamish, is that you?!” Hence neighbour’s remark. And he looked seriously sheepish when he saw the jig was up. Cat owners know this is not anthropocentric projection.

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6 years

@boothac59 @AaronBastani Oh big deal. Really? Really? To Hitler? That would've stopped him. What the hell was he doing on there in the first place. Freedom of speech is one thing. Giving a public platform to fascism is another.

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2 years

@APFactCheck And with no attendant outrage or support for Gaza, of course.

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4 years

@Khaleesi_Hodan Coronavirus: who’s laughing now?

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4 years

@jonathancoe An Agatha Christie red herring perhaps? Confess I don’t wish him a recovery if he has it. He’s directly responsible for mass unnecessary deaths to come. Cheltenham may well prove to be what that soccer game in Milan was to Italy & the UK was warned.

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@Krystyal2010 @AJEnglish @AshrafGarda It is absolutely right to show their religion & origins as they died in a country that voted for an anti-immigrant Brexit & an Islamophobic Tory party.

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2 months

Almost fully human & fully alive. Dreaming of my return to Japan. I will be fluent in Nihongo or die in the attempt. Hiragana, first of the 3 scripts: no wonder Japanese kids are so smart. The neural pathways required to grasp this system & I've only begun.

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3 months

Posh accommodation in Roppongi: International House of Japan. Sweet staff, spacious room for long stay, delicious asa gohan, near a subway. ON THE SEVENTH DAY I discovered I had sliding doors & a balcony. I guess my brain has finally landed. #Japan

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3 years

@AlanRMacLeod @guardian Their anti-people, anti-left stance was obvious in their opposition to Jeremy Corbyn.

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4 years

@davidkeegan @KellyQuilt Many cats belong to a secret social work society. They have lists of lonely people to visit & be fed by. (I feel a children’s book coming on.)

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4 years

@Rormac @og_tessa Take the Irish water protest as an example. En masse non-compliance forced the government to change. They swore they wouldn’t, but they did. Teachers’ Union needs to step up to protect staff & students.

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@FuhaidA2 @ahmed @JKhashoggi Saudi bot.

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@lee1_sandra @Agitate4Change This is about everywhere on this planet. It’s not a huge number and they mostly know each other.

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@Forkthem @Morrghan @cluasbheag Let me guess. You’re Irish-American. 🙄

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5 years

@Tim_McNulty @TheAndyMaturin I think he has tremendous political acumen. He’s walking the middle path (as Buddhists say) through the minefield of a country torn asunder by the Tories. There’s no easy solution to the Brexit divide. He’s trying to hold it all together.

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@A_AMilne Re Eeyore: "Even though he's basically clinically depressed he still gets invited to join in adventures with all his friends. And they never expect him to pretend to feel happy; they just love him anyway & they never leave him behind or ask him to change."

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6 years

@charlotte2153 Just block them. Waste of time & energy interacting with people who clearly have an anti-Corbyn agenda. They like to bully, also. I suspect they live sad lives.

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3 years

@cassie8517 @MiaQGirl @drmaggiemiller @toddedillard Because it was a white liquid? You have to respect male logic. 😳

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6 years

@eldafto @HiroRwar @GreatDismal Ever faithful, said the High King Peter to Trufflehunter, the badger, when the Four returned to Narnia in Prince Caspian. 😍 #ForNarniaandtheLion

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2 years

Fellow writers will weep & laugh.

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3 years

@AndrewEQuinn @mrjamesob @ClaireByrneLive If there’s one useful thing England has done for Ireland it’s shown EU sceptics we’re better in than out. Support here holding at 84% (2021) & will only increase as UK continues to deteriorate. We are Irish Europeans, European Irish. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

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6 years

@NicolaSturgeon @ScotlandsUnico1 @MaryQueenMovie What I've never understood in the film presentations of Mary is the Scottish accent. She grew up in the French court & spoke French more often than English. Her mother & grandmother were French & her first husband. No way she had a Scottish accent.

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4 years

@BGOnTheScene #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica

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3 years

@AFP Breaking: England loses the plot altogether.

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4 years

@Malcolm_theCat @MikeBatt01 That kitty is Zen level patient.

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4 years

@rtenews They did not edge past. They won exactly the same number of seats as SF. They had one free seat with the Ceann Comhairle. RTE election coverage has been dishonest, biased & disgraceful throughout. #GE2020

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1 year

@SocialistHB @TravelodgeUK TripAdvisor review quick quick! People swear by them. I always check before I book hotels, B & B's etc & I leave reviews as I know this helps travellers. Believe me, it makes a difference. Name & shame!

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6 years

@new_hero71 @TrustMeTony @philsav261 @bbclaurak @theresa_may Says the Tory troll farm bot with 19 followers 😂

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4 years

@sallydaviesjr And the UK media including BBC going along with it. Their reports include Spanish case & death counts but not a word about England’s. UK tourists still safer in Spain!

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4 years

@Ladyhartee @Sister_Medicine 1) how dense the government is 2) how dense the media are 3) how dense the population is (very much influenced by 1 & 2)

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6 years

@ne_grant @SueBarnish That may be so but it was obviously the wrong thing to do. Children should never be singled out, especially before they arrive when they are not yet "real". That child is now at the mercy of his/her classmates' imaginations & not there to counter same.

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4 years

@jburnmurdoch This is why Boris Johnson & his henchmen suddenly have “mild symptoms” of Covid19. Keeps them out of the blame game for the unnecessary deaths their policies have directly caused. #COVID19

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Early for Waseda Uni talk so visited nearby jinja (Shinto shrine) & asked to do a good job for my audience. Met Tochigi Sensei, prof & noted translator including of Ciaran Carson's The Táin (epic of my fantasy The Druid's Tune) & helpful colleague Oe Koki san.

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