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Newspaper headline "JD Vance says aliens are 'demons' and details obsession with UFOs"
The starship Enterprise from the original series approaches the enormous doomsday machine, facing certain destruction
Brexit, by killing free movement to and from the EU, caused the biggest voluntary loss of rights in British history, and economically was somewhere on the spectrum between a mistake and a disaster. Leave voters in the Brexit referendum skewed heavily towards older people with secure retirement incomes. People in work and the young overwhelmingly voted remain. The upshot is that the old put their cultural anxieties ahead of future generations’ economic needs. The old voted to jeopardise the economic prospects of the young.
pink and yellow primrose flowering in a crack in a stone terrace
Creepy cabin in the woods from the original Evil Dead film
Black and white photo of Scottish journalist Neal Ascherson with inset quote 'The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it'