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Doctor Who Thatcherism The Mad Monkhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zy1fr …

"Countries led by strong characters—Johnson, Donald Trump in the U.S., Emmanuel Macron in France—have not performed any better, and in many cases performed starkly worse, than those led by realists like Merkel."https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/04/boris-johnson-recovery-coronavirus-pandemic/610675/ …

"Ardern’s style would be interesting—a world leader in comfy clothes just casually chatting with millions of people!—and nothing more if it wasn’t for the fact that her approach has been paired with policies that have produced real, world-leading results."https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-leadership-coronavirus/610237/ …

"So “Never Trump” conservatives can probably make some demands of Biden, just like any other constituency in the party, and he might feel some need to court them."https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-never-trumpers-crashed-the-democratic-party/ …

this is *mad*https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1589015116 …

"Down we fall into that terrifying, wildly inconsequent, yet perfectly logical world where time races, then stands still; where space stretches, then contracts. It is the world of sleep; it is also the world of dreams."https://www.newstatesman.com/2020/05/ns-archive-lewis-carroll-alice-in-wonderland-adventures-looking-glass-children …

"Though he died an avowed Christian and prayed to God to forgive him his sins, a deathbed dream provoked a laughing last word in which he confessed that he would be happier in the company of those who were consigned to Hell."https://www.newstatesman.com/machiavelli-his-life-and-times-alexander-lee-review …