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Chaos In, Incumbents Out: Taking the Temperature of 2025
When 2025 rolled around, and we started considering what went wrong in 2024, we may have decided to make an ‘ins and outs’ list for the...
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Dead Law and Perishable Nations: Why Constitutions Beckon Revolutions
Germany is an invented state. Or rather, Germany Mark X (patent 1990) is an invented state. It was invented to replace Germany Mark IX...
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Language Barriers on the Pont des Arts: Aya Nakamura vs. the Académie Française
My first article as a lobsterman (also known as a harvester) was pessimistically named ‘The Impending Fiasco of the Paris Olympics’. A...
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Bats, Ball(room)s, Beethoven, and Byriani: The diary of an English cricketer on the Rhine
Foreword, 25.10.2024 May the 9th 2024, The Upper Mound Stand, Lord’s “This is my son William; he opens the bowling for the Authentics...
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Addiction Generation: How long can social media last?
Joe Biden has had a tough few weeks, so it feels only fair to give a little attention to his strengths – although we do acknowledge that...
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Domestic Terrorism or Federal Conspiracy?
How the media is helping frame Donald Trump as a stone-cold survivor. Back in 2020, while serving as President, Donald Trump contracted...
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The Bear’s Third Course is still essential viewing, and that’s Non-Negotiable.
Spoiler Warning: ‘The Bear’ Christopher Storer’s masterpiece, The Bear, has released its most anticipated third season, but the ten...
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Anatomy of a Fall: The Fine Line Between Truth and Fiction
I have spent the past three years searching for an easy answer to the question, ‘How does one write?’. I yearn to find some way to cheat...
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