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Such are our ways with dynamiters. These men were not Britishers, but aliens who came over in time of peace to perpetrate outrages, which if committed by soldiers in time of war, would ensure them short shrift after trial by drumhead court-martial … This case further illustrates what I have said about dynamiters and their crimes. In war the guns of an enemy would no doubt spare an astronomical Observatory, for none but savages would wish to injure an institution of that kind ; but these fiends are the enemies of humanity. And this Bourdin was an alien anarchist who was living here only by the courtesy of our law, or, I should be rather disposed to say, by the criminal apathy with which our law is administered.

(Top Cop Sir Robert Anderson writing in 1910 about North American and French “dynamite outrage” cells committing terror acts in the UK during the Late Victorian era.)

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Tests on the River Po in Italy have proved an effective way of gauging [cocaine usage] … thanks to the presence of human byproducts from cocaine in the water. Researchers found the equivalent of 4kg a day of Colombia’s most famous export being washed into the Adriatic, showing that Italians were consuming far more cocaine than figures had indicated.

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No, not those Macc Lads. It’s the Macclesfield Psalter from ye verily olde Macc Lads. More here.

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