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Politics
We have a deal!!!
Citing a Wall Street Journal report that Nawaz Sharif struck a deal giving the army control of strategic policy, the poster says the army used Imran Khan to soften up…
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Society
COPS. Oh America!
The poster argues American police kill unarmed people, mostly black, at an unacceptable rate, links it to the war on drugs and gun fetishism, and says the left-liberals have the…
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History
Letter to India: what soldiers wrote in the first world war
Links a Caravan piece on David Omissi’s collection of letters by Indian soldiers in the First World War, and reproduces several of them.
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The “Great” is no more in Great Britain
Prompted by the British embassy’s tweet about burning the White House, the poster argues that Britain’s union is fraying, with Scotland likely to leave regardless of the September vote and…
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Politics
“We are here to stay”
Quoting Nawaz Sharif’s defiant ‘we are here to stay’ speech and Khan’s reported conciliation, the poster hopes Pakistan gets a decisive leader, neither a fire-breather nor a passive observer, as…
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Society
Where are all the good men?
Reflecting on the Rotherham abuse scandal, the poster argues all societies struggle with angry young men and that women’s greater unwillingness to tolerate abuse sharpens the crisis, while blaming victims…
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How the smallest reflects grand ideas
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Politics
Pakistan as a spoil of war
A one-line jibe that the PTI-PML-N standoff is a Punjabi spectacle, with a Punjabi-dominated army watching, and asks where Pakistan fits in.
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It all comes crashing down
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How extraordinarily offensive?
