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Michael Ledger-Lomas

@MLedgerLomas

I write about kings and prophets Contact [email protected]

 Vancouver, B.C.
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Joined January 2014
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I went back to Peckham to write about Owen Hatherley's monumental new book for @jacobin ...
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There is a snake in Lotusland thetyee.ca/News/2025/03/19/P…
A Police Union Leader’s Controversial Run for Vancouver Council | The Tyee

A Police Union Leader’s Controversial Run for Vancouver Council | The Tyee

Ralph Kaisers ripped critics of the force and allegedly advised an officer to ignore VPD procedure after a death.

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Edwardian apocalypse: Kipling dreams of bombarding Chicago (1912)
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Just a shame about the nasal quisling who serves as the King's British PM
Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) profile pictureMark Carney
@MarkJCarney17 Mar 2025
My thanks to His Majesty King Charles III for his warm welcome and gracious hospitality today. Canada is fortunate to have a steadfast defender in our sovereign.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is received by His Majesty King Charles III in an audience at Buckingham Palace.

ALT Prime Minister Mark Carney is received by His Majesty King Charles III in an audience at Buckingham Palace.

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The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) profile pictureThe Royal Family
@RoyalFamily18 Mar 2025
🇮🇹🇻🇦 The King and Queen will visit the Holy See and the Republic of Italy from 7th to 10th April 2025.
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'How could Sir Keir respond w such cowardice to US aggression over Canada?' Because it's his personality. theguardian.com/politics/202…
Downing Street rejects Lammy’s claim Israel broke international law in Gaza

Downing Street rejects Lammy’s claim Israel broke international law in Gaza

Foreign secretary receives rare public rebuke as No 10 rows back by saying Israel ‘at risk’ of breaching rules

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Kipling on the Irish Guards in the Great War
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Edwardianism
The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) profile pictureThe Royal Family
@RoyalFamily17 Mar 2025
🇨🇦 This afternoon at Buckingham Palace, the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, was received in audience by The King.
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@EmmanuelMacron17 Mar 2025
Vous avez choisi la France pour votre première visite à l’étranger : c’est un immense honneur et cela montre l’importance de la relation entre le Canada et la France. Très heureux de vous recevoir, cher @MarkJCarney.
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Welfare State Modernism’s Lost Future

Central European designers and architects who fled fascism brought modernist ideals to Britain, reshaping its urban fabric. Today their work is being demolished, abandoned, or privatized.

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Very wrong for Americans to covet our natural resources but you can see why
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Something very Kipling about Carney: his wife went to Marlborough College and is from a wealthy pig-farming family.
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Dominion Aesthetics (@CanadianAesth) profile pictureDominion Aesthetics
@CanadianAesth15 Mar 2025
The unveiling of the Toronto South African War Memorial. (1910)
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Don't go to the USA (if that wasn't already obvious).
noah kulwin (@nkulw) profile picturenoah kulwin@nkulw15 Mar 2025
“Senior described Schmidt being ‘violently interrogated’ at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.”
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Best bit of Angus Wilson's moving book on Kipling is his strange identification with his vanished world: an old man who grew up in South Africa remembers the twenties in the diminished nineteen seventies.
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The received view of Poilievre is that he understood the medium was the message. Marshall McLuhan in a tight black t shirt.
Frank Graves (@VoiceOfFranky) profile pictureFrank Graves
@VoiceOfFranky15 Mar 2025
Have been testing awareness/ impacts of advertising . Interesting findings .Large majorities have recently seen political ads and vast majority have seen Conservative ads. Net impacts on vote intention highly significant net negative , which lines up with vote intention trends .
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How your email finds me
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Good chance to catch up with this sharp critic.
Pratinav Anil (@pratinavanil) profile picturePratinav Anil@pratinavanil15 Mar 2025
The mighty Times paywall can be breached this weekend - so here are some pieces I enjoyed writing for @TheTimesBooks: 🧵
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The secret policemen are pretty schlubby.
g a b y (@gabydvj) profile pictureg a b y@gabydvj14 Mar 2025
the ACLU just released video of ICE arresting Mahmoud Khalil, taken by his pregnant wife. note the plainclothes officers
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