The more the U.K government keep going on about how it's disrespectful to protest on Armistice Day, the more I look into the history of Armistice Day. The more I look into the history of Armistice Day, the more I know that their version of Armistice Day bears no resemblance to Armistice Day.
It's a day to express our complex, ambiguous, contradictory feelings towards war. Commemoration, Celebration, Mourning, Protest, it's all those things,and more.
It's Our day, not Theirs.
The UK was one of the first in the world to vaccinate our population. Our rollout was excellent and achieved very rapid coverage, starting with the most vulnerable.
Using strict public health measures earlier to delay that second Alpha wave could have saved thousands.
Read more on my substack here: https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-covid-inquiry-has-laid-bare-the
Big Journalism has, at long last, started explaining what will happen if Trump and the Republicans take full control of the federal government. The WashPost, today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/05/trump-revenge-second-term/
But journalists have to take it another major step further. They have to become activists for democracy (and, by extension, freedom of speech including the press), not simply taking note of what's happening.
They've made it clear that they won't do this. That will make them complicit in what happens.
Imitation.
Ms: BnF, Latin 919, f. 10r. #medievalcat #medievalt @histodons
Research integrity matters because it allows all those involved in the research process, including funders, other researchers and those that are impacted by the findings, to be able to assess the trustworthiness of the research. In July 2023, the Committee published “Research Integrity in the UK: Annual Statement 2023”. This is the first annual statement […]
As P&G jacks up prices to pad its profit margins at your expense, the company is simultaneously spending $8 BILLION on stock buybacks.
How many more examples of blatant greed do we need to hear about before we finally address the corporate price gouging that's driving inflation?
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RT @nytimes
Procter & Gamble raised prices 10% across its brands, like Gillette razors, Dawn dish soap and Swiffer dusters, for a second straight quarter and …
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1649457985427570711
Tell your parents! Tell your deans!
“History majors had a lower unemployment rate than economics, business management or communications majors, and their salaries barely lag behind in those fields, according to a recent study.”
@histodons #histodons https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/humanities-liberal-arts-policy-higher-education.html
SUCH a cool experiment out of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab: https://archive.social
Allows you to capture a thread from Twitter and archive it in sealed PDFs to attest to legitimacy.
Could be enormously useful to journalists, archivists, etc, particularly with Twitter facing a perilous future.
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