A big chunk of the negative effects of commercial TV likely to come from Mediaset www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...
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Positive causal effects of consumption of PSB news and broadsheet papers; negative effects of commercial TV; no effects of tabloids (Table 2 of journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...)
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In my case, because the press release www.gov.uk/government/n... doesn't mention the CEFR equivalency (or link to the tabled documents)
Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English
Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.
www.gov.uk
But of course, the release is written in such a way as to make people believe this is an equivalent standard to an A-level *in English*, rather than "the standard of language competence that you would get doing an A-level in that language not having started as a native speaker"
If someone could find the documents as laid before Parliament that would certainly be helpful...
This is word salad designed to sound tough. SELT is basically IELTS with extra security elements, and there's no IELTS to A-level equivalency. It would be a lot clearer -- but potentially less discouraging -- if they just gave the required IELTS score (or CEFR band)
Youth protests against incumbent suborned by a military unit that thinks it can seize power?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...
Elite Madagascar military unit says it has seized power from President Andry Rajoelina
It comes after MPs voted to impeach President Andry Rajoelina.
www.bbc.co.uk
Hope your surgery goes well and that people close to you take away your communication devices when you're on the good stuff
There were some odd and mostly pointless renumberings, so I think lots of people have felt this way at some point
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i fear we're heading for a fun period where countries try to copy America and quickly find out it can get away with stupid shit only because it is America, and the same rules do not apply to not-America
I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if a thousand Wikipedia servers cried out under the load
Would concept development count? "Backsliding" and "affective polarization" are now indispensable terms that don't always fit into pre existing frameworks
Oblique approach: David Edmond's Parfit biography. At least that way no one can say that you presented just the best bits.
I say "in theory" because you must simultaneously account for the interaction with "executive dominance". I hate models with multiple interactions with the focal variable
Thermostatic opinion is a very broad phenomenon not limited to the USA (contemporary or historical). If it does suggest something quite profound going wrong, it's been going wrong since the 1970s.
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Kiplimo couldn't sustain it but wins comfortably in 2:02:30. He has to helped away at the end. He left it all out there
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Don't look now, but there's several men on pace for a marathon WR in Chicago, including Jacob Kiplimo. Might even be the first legit sub-2 hours...
I've phrased these as though they were alternatives, but of course they're not. Once you start winning, even by chance, you start to believe
It always makes me wonder: is this just a chance event? Did someone just open the box marked "one in a thousand chances", and find Vacherot's name inside? Or did something change perceptibly for Vacherot this week?
This has been an incredible week for Valentin Vacherot: first Monégasque to win at ATP1000 level, and lowest ranked to ever do so youtu.be/sTlHqhHIKis?...
Cousins Arthur Rinderknech vs Valentin Vacherot Historic Final 🏆 | Shanghai 2025 Final Highlights
YouTube video by Tennis TV
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Government does some good stuff. In this case, it seems it's solved a coordination problem by walking people up the aisle until they have to go through with it. Bad approach to matrimony, surprisingly effective for public policy
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Wonder whether the Scottish Trades Union Congress is still continuing with its campaign "condemning attempts to undermine [the Venezuelan] Government" www.stuc.org.uk/campaigns-in...
Venezuela
The STUC calls on affiliates to support the Scottish Venezuelan Solidarity Campaign
www.stuc.org.uk
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