Set up some fucking NHS dental clinics! How hard can it be. Make all UK newly qualified dental surgeons provide five years of service to such clinics in return for the investment the country has made in their training, and provide a basic checkup, filling and extraction service to all registered NH...

I must say I have seen that, I seem to recall that it is triggered at a certain point in the main story, after which it is a "random encounter" that you have a chance of seeing while travelling.

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[i[King's Test[/i], bk 2 of the Star of the Guardians series.

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History will judge who has the right of this, and I have no fear on that score. All law grows from the barrel of a gun The real and perhaps deeper danger here is that things like this push the "global south" toward regimes like China and Russia. The fact that these powers were not colonia...

Close enough. "If you can make me believe you want me enough," he finished, "I'll let you go."

Congrats. Your question.

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And since I'm doing it, have moved on to Margaret Weiss' Star of the Guardians, book 1, The Lost King. Space opera but I can't help drawing parallels with Star Wars which it is clearly at least partially "inspired" by.

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I was just reading some horrifying stuff about the "dental Deserts" in the UK...Say what I will about SA, at least I can get a dentist, and afford one. In other news, I see that the US has taken some surprising steps re Israel, and both they and the UK have intimated recognising Palestinia...

Menolly is clearly feeling like a rabbit...

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Haha, I'm not saying it doesn't make sense, Just that my brain kept going "wait...what?" when I tried to read it. I shall give it a better shot when I feel able to cope with complex thought again.

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LOL, crazy. I can't make heads or tails of it. Also, I thought you'd posted it in the hall, so I worried I was going mad when I couldn't find it or my comment about it. Congrats.

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Just a bit more...

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Well, busy on the final Rose of the Prophet book, The Prophet of Ahkran . One thing that really stood out to me from this series was the inclusion of a clearly gay / bisexual main character, which considering these were written by a couple of Mormon's in the 80's was probably pretty ground-breaking....

It was a brave move by South Africa to bring this case, absolutely guaranteed to win them no friends in either the UK or US, and any person with a shred of humanity who has been watching this tragedy unfold will recognise it as such. Nothing will ever bring back those lost on either side, and the i...

Likewise, I pretty much agree with what you said above there. :D I must just add though that by legal definition, "genocidal actions" can be carried out against portions of populations, and that I do not think it a stretch too far to consider Israel's actions against the Palestinians in Ga...

Something I've been thinking a lot about lately but only barely touch on in the paper I published is that everything is as real as it needs to be in that framework. Whatever you believe to be true is true, within boundaries to be established by experiment and experience. Also, Is that thing you jus...

Apparently the veterinarians association had previously determined that nitrogen was too inhumane to be used in the euthanasia of animals...and it took 22 minutes for him to die... --- In other news, I watched the ICJ judgement on the SA v Israel genocide case, and glad as I was to see that the ICJ ...

[Syl] wrote: ↑ You'll never entirely get rid of me.

I should hope not...

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What was the condition for letting Morn go that Nick imposed on her once she awoke from her "catatonia" on the way to Billingsgate?

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16?

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..and the nation formed in response to that most awful of crimes against humanity is itself engaging in behaviour against another group of people that it of all people should understand... I know, right? This has been a source of bafflement to me even before the current conflict...that a people so ...