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I would like to thank @Aremay and @CJTerry for sharing with me the story of the Emu War (also known as the Great Emu War). I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
More on the Emu War aka “When Australia Wemt to War With Emus And Lost.” Right on the back of the Bodyline Ashes defeat as well. Must have been a dark time eh, @drjennings ? google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg…
My favourite bit is when the commander of Australian forces attempts to excuse his defeat by portraying the Emu army as the greatest war machine the world has ever seen.
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Rob Ford
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Charles Moore now on R4 explaining Brexit as the result of Henry VIII wanting a divorce in 1538.
Presumably Thatcherism can be traced to George IV’s views on market traders, or something
This is a totally normal way to explain contemporary political events
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Rob Ford
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One of the most damaging zombie beliefs in the whole politics of Brexit debate is the "Lab needs to win/hold Leave seats and therefore needs to win/hold Leave votes". The second does *not* follow from the first.
For example, if a seat voted 52% Leave, and it is a Con-Lab marginal, then it is very likely that a *large majority* of Lab votes in that seat will come from Remain supporters (and a large majority of Con votes from Leave supporters)
It should be, but never is, obvious that "appeal more to Leave voters" is not the only strategy for winning/holding such a seat, nor will it usually or necessarily be the best one.
1. If you lose even one Remainer for each two Leavers gained, you're stuffed
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Rob Ford
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I haven’t seen this research (is it representative samples? Is it published?) can only speak re the polling I helped commission in Nov 18 which showed virtually no one thought this then.
I was surprised by this tbh. Possible views changed over summer but I’d like to see reliable data from earlier before drawing that conclusion
So I wouldn’t rule out people misperceiving no deal as Remain in the past (but haven’t seen representative polling one way or the other) but they clearly no longer do so (though they do have rather relaxed view of potential costs)
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
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Story time:
2001, Australia. The conservative Howard government is trailing badly in the polls heading into a federal election.

Then, the Norwegian freighter "Tampa" picks up 433 drowning Afghans off the coast and Howard turns it into an existential threat to all that's Aussie.
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Wikipedia edit histories sometimes throw up some interesting information. For the uninitiated, anyone can edit a Wikipedia page but it will get vetted & corrected at times even by bots. PR gurus or even interested parties themselves often curate pages to avoid negative entries 1/
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David Attali
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Plagier #Wikipedia pour remplir un magazine, certains en ont rêvé, le "Magazine de l’Aviation" l’a fait !

Des pages entières sont d’authentiques copiés-collés d’articles de Wikipedia.

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Commençons avec un article sur l’histoire de Boeing. Tout va bien. Sauf que ledit article est repris quasi intégralement de l’article de Wikipedia :

Cerise sur le gâteau : les titres des paragraphes sont identiques à ceux de Wikipedia (copy-paste oblige).
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