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I'm back. The metaphorical rock has rolled back from my cave entrance, and I have arisen, albeit shakily, to stagger out into the bright...

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One minute. In scarcely 60 seconds a stream of bullets fuelled by irrational hate streams into crowds of partygoers on a Dayton, Ohio...

Saying that Donald Trump likes to tweet is as much a truism as remarking that the sun rises in the east. Yet, even by his overblown...

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