M. Grégoire · @mpjgregoire
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Somewhat surprisingly, the best summary I've seen of the current scandal of Beijing interference in comes from :

"Justin Trudeau’s government has been compromised by the Chinese Communist Party and Canada’s democracy is in jeopardy. This is a startling claim, all the more so for the fact that Canadian intelligence officials are the ones making it."

spectator.co.uk/article/how-ju


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Last updated 2 years ago

M. Grégoire · @mpjgregoire
383 followers · 16174 posts · Server mamot.fr

@donald
Mr. Zhu is a Canadian lawyer who has been studying for his LL.D. at Oxford. He has published an article at the website, which is focused on the side of , a bit like . The website seems respectable and has been around since the years TTBOMK. Don't read the article if you don't want to, but it does discuss the problems of the Canadian military.

Isn't there a way to block the cookies?

@yuanyi_z

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M. Grégoire · @mpjgregoire
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M. Grégoire · @mpjgregoire
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"[M]y feelings are motivated by raw, undiluted, full-fat-no-soy hatred of the Tory party. It has grown to an unquenchable loathing."

"I know blue-collar small business owners who spend their days inveighing against crime, mass immigration and wokeism but would sooner see a gang of non-binary Albanian drug-dealers move in next door than vote Tory."

The 2024 election will be cataclysmic for the Conservatives
spectator.co.uk/article/voters


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M. Grégoire · @mpjgregoire
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"Careful study of the period might prove enlightening for both sides, but in practice there is little prospect of left and right reaching agreement about what school children should learn about the civil war and Franco’s dictatorship. The Spanish people have many fine qualities but on the whole it’s probably fair to say that the ability to listen with an open mind to an opposing point of view is not the first that springs to mind."

spectatorworld.com/topic/spain


#thespectator #GeneralFranco #espol

Last updated 3 years ago

M. Grégoire · @mpjgregoire
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@spectator@mstdn.foxfam.club An unexpected take from .

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M. Grégoire · @mpjgregoire
235 followers · 14262 posts · Server mamot.fr
M. Grégoire · @mpjgregoire
235 followers · 14262 posts · Server mamot.fr

"did not believe that the practical world could be understood by the rational mind alone. He was thus a fierce critic of central planning, of the ability of a government to solve the problems people could not solve themselves. He saw the hideous, self-defeating paradox of trying to change the everyday world from a distance based on a theory."

spectator.co.uk/article/taking



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Last updated 4 years ago