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Dec 3 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 ICYMI: From Tutankhamun's tomb to Sturgeon's great independence gamble, catch up on this week's #storiesofourtimes.

1️⃣ How a dead police officer's phone exposed misogyny, corruption and racism podfollow.com/1501716010/epi…
2⃣ Will Rishi Sunak wave through Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, creating Baroness Dorries and 30-year-old Lord Kempsell? Or will he block some of them?
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3⃣ Amidst the global interest in the discovery of a royal tomb in Egypt, The Times got exclusive access to report from inside
podfollow.com/1501716010/epi…
4⃣ .@DAaronovitch sits down with Scottish political editor @KieranPAndrews to try to understand Nicola Sturgeon's riskiest independence gamble yet
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5⃣ Keeping cardboard pets and crawling - that’s how students have kept themselves entertained during the lockdowns in China.

An insight into life in China and the reasons leading to the recent protests 👇
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