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The road less travelled, part V: Shakespeare in Sweden

In his final stop on his ‘road less travelled’ tour, Christian Nielsen uncovers the possible prototype for Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a Swedish hamlet.

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Misery is its own medicine

Being called a miserable sod might not be everyone’s moniker of choice, but Shakespeare was on to something with his comment “The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope”.

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For 20 years, people in Iraq have been paying a hefty price for the US-led war in their country. Meanwhile, not one of the architects of that catastrophe have been brought to justice. In fact, George W Bush, Tony Blair and the others have had peaceful and lucrative retirements.

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19:52 · March 20, 2023
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@GordonBrown How about your former boss, Tony Blair, whose illegal war you supported? He seems to be doing a good job hiding in plain sight for the crimes he inflicted on the people of Iraq.

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09:42 · March 20, 2023
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@GeorgeMonbiot While Vladimir Putin certainly deserves to stand in the dock for his crimes in Ukraine, so long as the ICC never indicts or prosecutes western leaders suspected of war crimes, it will be an ultimately unjust and partial legal institution. twitter.com/DiabolicalIdea…

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09:37 · March 20, 2023
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Today marks 7 years since Egyptian authorities froze all my assets and suspended my only bank account “pending investigations” into my human rights work in 2016. Keep cozying up to Sisi don’t mind me

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08:21 · March 18, 2023 ·
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@DiabolicalIdea

It's good that the International Criminal Court is standing up to the murderous excesses of Vladimir Putin. But if the ICC is to become truly just and truly credible it must also stand up to western war criminals, such as George W Bush and Tony Blair. bbc.com/news/world-eur…

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20:09 · March 17, 2023
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@DiabolicalIdea

A narcissist's preferred pronouns are I/my.

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20:04 · March 15, 2023
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@DiabolicalIdea

The mother of Renaissance polymath Leonardo Da Vinci's was a freed Circassian slave, according to an Italian scholar who says he has uncovered the document that liberated her. nbcnews.com/news/world/leo…

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16:42 · March 15, 2023
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@DiabolicalIdea

Our latest report reveals how most carbon market standards are undermining the rights of local and indigenous communities by providing them with little to no recourse for voicing their grievances related to climate projects. twitter.com/CarbonMrktWatc…

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10:23 · March 15, 2023
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In addition to the culling at Twitter, Meta has announced 21,000 layoffs since November. And the full destructive potential of AI has not yet been unleashed. nytimes.com/2023/03/14/tec…

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08:11 · March 15, 2023
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Whenever someone expresses concern about how automation is irreplaceably annihilating jobs, optimists point to the job creation potential of the 'knowledge economy'. But even the tech sector is shedding jobs like they were an uncomfortable skin.

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08:11 · March 15, 2023
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