Sublime

Another enduring name for the force as a whole is of course the Old Bill, originally a cartoon character of the First World War who was portrayed as a grumbling Cockney soldier with a walrus moustache. The ‘police’ meaning emerged when the character, this time wearing police uniform, appeared in posters during the Second World War giving advice on

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He had another delusion of the political novice: he was going to apply “sound business principles” to government and thereby give it a fine new gloss. So he attempted to become Conservative leader, but as he was a newcomer he had no chance of doing so. It seemed to me that everything about Boy was wrong for politics: he was very rich and could not

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The purpose of the welfare state is to shackle the conscientious and productive to the workless, giving them the immense pleasure of working to pay for other people to have families they themselves struggle to afford https://t.co/vYyKB2fNxj

When the Fair came to a close on October 17, 1965, Robert Moses was revealed to the public in all his egotism, arrogance and ruthlessness. He was, in fact, portrayed, in the press’s emphasis on the $100,000 a year in salary and expenses and the escrow account, as something worse than he was—greedy for money. He was in public disrepute so great that

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But in the very next paragraph, Darwin raised the free rider problem, which is still the main objection raised against group selection: But it may be asked, how within the limits of the same tribe did a large number of members first become endowed with these social and moral qualities, and how was the standard of excellence raised? It is extremely

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