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You have a birthday.
So does England. 🏴
And it’s today. The 12th of July.
Almost 1,100 years ago, on this exact day, England became a country. Almost no one knows it.
The island was old long before it had a name. Farmers. Romans. Saxons. Then out of the sea came the Danes.
🏴🇬🇧On a winter night in 1844, the whole street laughed at a shop with 5 things for sale.
Today 1 in 8 people on Earth belongs to what it started.
Rochdale, Lancashire, deep in the Hungry Forties. The cotton mills ran day and night and the weavers still went hungry. That year
There are legitimate concerns about A.I. data centres that should be, and are being, addressed. But it’s obvious to anyone in the security space that China and Russia are actively aggravating opposition to weaken the West.
China, Russia and Others Seek to Inflame Debate Over
“Putin’s war has failed. It failed to erase Ukraine or break the west. Instead, it has exposed the weakness, corruption and fear at the centre of his regime. Peace will only be achieved when Russia is defeated and Putin’s regime, built on lies, terror and theft, comes to an end.
Canada’s judges have become “completely divorced from reality” in the reasoning they use to bat down mandatory minimum sentences for serious crimes, says Christine Van Geyn (@cvangeyn), interim executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation (@CDNConstFound).
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For 300 years, corsairs came to enslave Europeans.
Not from a colony. From Europe's own coasts.🏴☠️
Spain, Italy, France, even Ireland and Iceland felt their reach.
One historian's estimate puts the number enslaved above a million across the centuries.
That figure is
