Josh McMinn
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 18 Jul
Josh McMinn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Given England and Scotland's sojourn in the World Cup, it made me think, how much luck do you need to win the World Cup?
Has anyone ever tried to quantify luck?
Given England and Scotland's sojourn in the World Cup, it made me think, how much luck do you need to win the World Cup?
Has anyone ever tried to quantify luck?
Well, The Independent cites an article by Oxford historian and author Professor Peter Frankpan in the magazine Foreign Policy.
That article has yet another surprising life expectancy stat.
So these are accounts on an app called Telegram, which is a bit like WhatsApp, but where the chats can have over a million members.
People follow Telegram channels to get fast information on what's happening in the war.
The channel cited in this article is a Russian investigative news source called Astra.
And what did Astra find?
I thought Astra might be the source of this statistic, but they're not.
Astra referenced an even smaller Telegram channel called House Among the Laurels.
Oh, so we're quite deep down the rabbit hole now.
And it only goes deeper.
Even House Among the Laurels aren't the source of this statistic.
In their post, they say they remember seeing the numbers in a study by someone simply known as N. Sounds rock solid.
So do we know who this N character is?
Well, no.
This is where I recruited the help of some real telegram experts to help me figure this all out.
Here's Andrei Vladov from BBC Monitoring.
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