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Ukraine war: beware all the talk of ‘breakthroughs’ or ‘gamechangers’ – it’s going to be a long, bloody and costly struggle

Ukraine war: beware all the talk of ‘breakthroughs’ or ‘gamechangers’ – it’s going to be a long, bloody and costly struggle: From some of the headlines of late, you might be forgiven for assuming that the worst was past for Ukraine’s assault troops. That recent advances by Ukrainian forces constitute “breakthroughs” or “breaches” and that …

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US election 2024: beware polling predictions as they can be wrong – but here’s an approach which has often been on the money

US election 2024: beware polling predictions as they can be wrong – but here’s an approach which has often been on the money: Drop of Light/Shutterstock Despite the avalanche of legal indictments, Donald Trump remains favourite to win the Republican nomination for the 2024 US presidential election. According to a poll reported by the website …

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Holocaust remembrance: we must beware of well-intentioned mythmaking as events pass out of living memory

Holocaust remembrance: we must beware of well-intentioned mythmaking as events pass out of living memory: praszkiewicz In ancient Rome, the saeculum, or “the age”, was the span of living memory, the telling of an event passed down from the oldest to the youngest. Recognising this profound idea, some have worried that the memory of the …

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Russia is building a closer alliance with the world’s autocracies – the west should beware

Russia is building a closer alliance with the world’s autocracies – the west should beware: Russia is planning to buy “millions” of Soviet-era weapons from North Korea, a recent US intelligence report revealed. Britain’s defence intelligence has also confirmed that Russia is already using Iranian-made drones in Ukraine. The revelations follow a series of diplomatic …

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West must beware the language of appeasement and see Russia’s war on Ukraine for what it is

West must beware the language of appeasement and see Russia’s war on Ukraine for what it is: Words influence the way we see the world. In 2015, we warned that the language used by the west to describe Russia’s armed intervention in Ukraine was a jumble of euphemism and understatement that failed to serve the …

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South Africa beware: Ace Magashule’s RET faction will fight to the bitter end

South Africa in the news: South Africa beware: Ace Magashule’s RET faction will fight to the bitter end: South Africans, including the mass of ANC members, cannot allow the advances since 2017 to be squandered, and for the constitutional order to be subverted. The campaign against this assault on our …: “South Africa” – BingNews …

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Beware the bad big wolf: why you need to put your adjectives in the right order

Beware the bad big wolf: why you need to put your adjectives in the right order: …and Red Little Riding Hood Shutterstock Unlikely as it sounds, the topic of adjective use has gone “viral”. The furore centres on the claim, taken from Mark Forsyth’s book The Elements of Eloquence, that adjectives appearing before a noun …

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