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Maclean drank too much. Burgess talked too loud. Philby stayed quiet. Still, they all knew things they shouldn’t have.
#books #bookreview #DeceivingTheDeceivers #ColdWarHistory
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MACLEAN'S FIRST OF THE SEASON MAKES IT 1-0.
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It’s honestly sad what #Macleans (the Canadian equivalent of Time or Newsweek) has become.
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A distressing feature about what Canada will look like in 2060. In #Maclean's magazine, a long-time publication in #Canada.
(Of course, the changes won't be just in Canada.)
ADDENDUM: I feel for people wanting kids -- this is the world they're going to face.
#environment #climate #climatechangehttps://macleans.ca/society/environment/canada-in-the-year-2060/
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Maclean’s Magazine Scaremongers Readers into Believing Games Are Comparable to Cocaine
Maclean's magazine published an article comparing video games to hits of cocaine. So much for "professional" journalism in magazines.
Gaming is a cultural norm. People enjoy gaming for
#Technology #addiction #disinformation #Maclean's #Maclean'sMagazine #research #videogames
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Heute erklärte Rachel #Maclean, "Minister for Safeguarding", ihren Rücktritt. Ihr Aufgabengebiet war unter Anderem das Vorgehen gegen sexuelle Gewalt. /MS
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RT @redditchrachel
With deep regret I am resigning as Minister for Safeguarding. It remains the greatest honour of my life to represent Redditch in Parliament and I will continue to support the policies which I was re-elected to deliver from the backbenches.
https://twitter.com/redditchrachel/status/1544692210070962177 -
"I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot."
John Maclean,
Speech from the Dock, 1918.Have things changed in the intervening 101 years?
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Nick Maclean Quartet Ft. Brownman Ali - Dolphin Dance
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“MacLean was interested in writing stories with unreliable narrators which could lead to double & triple-twists in the storyline… From 1963–1971, MacLean wrote a series of near-perfect thrillers… which established him as the most successful author on the planet”
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https://flashbak.com/the-pioneering-novels-and-kick-ass-thrills-of-alistair-maclean-428930/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #thriller #film #movies #actionmovies
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“MacLean was Scottish and another thing I intuitively liked was that his heroes were mostly rough-hewed social nobodies formed by World War II and not on the playing fields of Eton like James Bond. I didn’t know much about British class snobbery then, but I sided with outsiders.”
—Alessandra Stanley, “In Praise of Alistair MacLean & the Male Romance”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/books/in-praise-of-alistair-maclean-and-the-male-romance.html
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #thriller #film #movies #actionmovies
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Alistair MacLean (1922–1987) – author of The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, etc. – was born #OTD, 21 April, 1922. A native Gaelic speaker, he grew up near Inverness. @NeilDrysdale looks at MacLean’s remarkable life
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#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #thriller #film #movies #actionmovies #Gaidhligh #Gaelic
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Alistair MacLean (1922–1987) – author of The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, etc. – was born #OTD, 21 April, 1922. A native Gaelic speaker, he grew up near Inverness. @NeilDrysdale looks at MacLean’s remarkable life
1/5
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #thriller #film #movies #actionmovies #Gaidhligh #Gaelic
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Alistair MacLean (1922–1987) – author of The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, etc. – was born #OTD, 21 April, 1922. A native Gaelic speaker, he grew up near Inverness. @NeilDrysdale looks at MacLean’s remarkable life
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#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #thriller #film #movies #actionmovies #Gaidhligh #Gaelic
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Alistair MacLean (1922–1987) – author of The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, etc. – was born #OTD, 21 April, 1922. A native Gaelic speaker, he grew up near Inverness. @NeilDrysdale looks at MacLean’s remarkable life
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#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #thriller #film #movies #actionmovies #Gaidhligh #Gaelic
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Alistair MacLean (1922–1987) – author of The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, etc. – was born #OTD, 21 April, 1922. A native Gaelic speaker, he grew up near Inverness. @NeilDrysdale looks at MacLean’s remarkable life
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#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #thriller #film #movies #actionmovies #Gaidhligh #Gaelic
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Alasdair Maclean’s NIGHT FALLS ON ARDNAMURCHAN (1984) was his only full-length prose work. Hilary Mantel called it
“a book like an animated shipping forecast… You hear the ocean and the voice of a salt-laden gale in this sharp, thoughtful, eloquent memoir”
4/4
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/night-falls-on-ardnamurchan-2/
#Scottish #literature #memoir #20thcentury #Argyll #crofting
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John MacLean was born in Oshawa, Canada.
But his legacy was #MadeInJersey. -
Dougie MacLean - Caledonia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP8A9rtg0iI&list=RDBXInU1lTU64&index=6
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John Maclean: All that life can give us
19 Nov, University of Stirling – freeAuthor & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean, followed by an open archive and poetry reading
#Scottish #literature #poetry #history #Labourhistory #socialism #RedClydeside #JohnMaclean
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John Maclean: All that life can give us
19 Nov, University of Stirling – freeAuthor & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean, followed by an open archive and poetry reading
#Scottish #literature #poetry #history #Labourhistory #socialism #RedClydeside #JohnMaclean
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John Maclean: All that life can give us
19 Nov, University of Stirling – freeAuthor & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean, followed by an open archive and poetry reading
#Scottish #literature #poetry #history #Labourhistory #socialism #RedClydeside #JohnMaclean
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John Maclean: All that life can give us
19 Nov, University of Stirling – freeAuthor & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean, followed by an open archive and poetry reading
#Scottish #literature #poetry #history #Labourhistory #socialism #RedClydeside #JohnMaclean
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John Maclean: All that life can give us
19 Nov, University of Stirling – freeAuthor & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean, followed by an open archive and poetry reading
#Scottish #literature #poetry #history #Labourhistory #socialism #RedClydeside #JohnMaclean
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John Maclean (1879–1923), socialist & Red Clydesider, was born #OTD, 24 August
Listen to Hamish Henderson’s “The John Maclean March”, sung by Dick Gaughan (1972)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uAs5cyy5EM
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #song #folksong #socialism #Scotland #workingclass #history #labourhistory #RedClydeside #HamishHenderson #JohnMaclean
