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Matt Sleat

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Father of two, husband to one. Professor of Political Theory (University of Sheffield). Author of Post-Liberalism (amzn.eu/d/h2w2yXI).

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Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought @biapt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We are thrilled to announce that @shukyingchan.bsky.social is the winner of our Early-career prize for 2026! Our warmest congratulations to her. The competition was fierce this year. Full announcement below 👇 www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-early-...
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BIAPT Early-career prize winner 2026 - Shuk Ying Chan - BIAPT
Dr Shuk Ying Chan is a Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at University College London. She was awarded a PhD in Politics by the University of Princeton in 2021 and si...
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Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought @biapt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We are delighted to announce that Dr Paul Sagar of Kings College London is the winner of our Mid-career prize! Heartiest of congratulations to him. Our full statement is below. 👇 www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-mid-ca...
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BIAPT Mid-career prize winner 2026 - Paul Sagar - BIAPT
We are delighted to award the BIAPT Mid-Career Prize to Dr Paul Sagar, who is Reader in Political Theory at Kings College London. Sagar has made a seismic contribution to our field over the last decad...
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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
www.thebulwark.com/p/postlibera... Good piece by @mattpolprof.bsky.social
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Postliberalism Is Not About Economic Transformation
Disregard the empty allegations of ‘socialism.’ The real problem with postliberalism is its underlying authoritarian vision.
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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Fellow political theorists & intellectual historians: consider applying to BIAPT. Deadline has been extended until the July 31st. This is an excellent specialist conference, with great feedback and discussion. www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/conference/a...
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CfP: 2027 BIAPT conference - University of Exeter (January 6th-8th) - BIAPT
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Many thanks for some really thought provoking questions. Very much enjoyed responding to them.
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Thanks, @gregsargent.bsky.social. I agree that post-liberalism's critics do not get the same level of attention, even among outlets you'd think ought to be highly sympathetic (e.g. @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, @lrb.co.uk). So thanks for drawing attention to our books.
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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
firstthings.com/prodigal-chi... Nice measured and sophisticated discussion of Kelly and @mattsleat.bsky.social postliberalism books in First Things. A post-liberalism that ranges beyond Deneen and Vermeule. @politybooks.bsky.social
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Prodigal Child - First Things
Something of a shift in the landscape is ­signaled when a press like Polity releases, almost simultaneously, two book-length critical engagements...
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Thanks to @karlpike.bsky.social for his excellent review of Post-Liberalism in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/review-...
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Review: Post-Liberalism, by Matt Sleat
A new home for the political right.
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Many thanks to @pjthinker.bsky.social for this extended review of 'Post-Liberalism', including some thoughts on the connection between this and my earlier work on realist political theory. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Very excited to find Post-Liberalisms out in the wild for the first time. And to discover the rather wonderful Topping Bookshop in Bath.
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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Looking good at the Polity stand today in Oxford @pjthinker.bsky.social & @mattsleat.bsky.social
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Vorpolitisch @vorpolitisch.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Talking to @mattsleat.bsky.social author of "Post-Liberalism" about JD Vance, authoritarians and women's suffrage. youtu.be/bczg0MpPyxk
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Matt Sleat (ENG) | JD Vance, Authoritarianism and Women's Suffrage
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Getting the old team back together. Pleased to say that I have joined @enzoreds.bsky.social once more as co-editor of European Journal of Political Theory. Looking forward to seeing what people are working on these days (having been slightly removed from the theory world for a couple of years).
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Less than a week until US publication day (17th). a.co/d/02CvoxOl
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Very grateful for the mention of mine and @pjthinker.bsky.social's book on post-liberalism in The Spectator. I have no dog in the fight, but politics of the British and American post-liberals are more different than acknowledged here (as I explain in my book). amzn.eu/d/0hDHqugN amzn.eu/d/051VjPnM
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Post-Liberalism: Amazon.co.uk: Sleat, Matt: 9781509562206: Books
Buy Post-Liberalism 1 by Sleat, Matt (ISBN: 9781509562206) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Just a reminder the excellent @thetablet.bsky.social piece on Against Post-Liberalism and @mattsleat.bsky.social Post-Liberalism is out today…👆👆👆
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Review of 'Post-Liberalism' in @thetls.bsky.social. 'Yet as Sleat shows – in devastating fashion, enhanced by how calmly it is delivered – both sides of [post-liberalism's] bizarre political coin are intellectually hopeless'. www.the-tls.com/philosophy/c...
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Common good?
In 2024, with the US presidential election looming, J. D. Vance described himself as “of the post-liberal right”. Here in the UK, the “Blue Labour” faction led by Maurice Glasman has increasingly been...
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Really grateful to Theo Hobson and The Tablet for engaging with 'Post-Liberalism' and @pjthinker.bsky.social 'Against Post-Liberalism' in their cover story this week. Very thoughtful and reflective piece. www.thetablet.co.uk/features/the...
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The dark night of liberalism - The Tablet
Be careful what you wish for. A generation ago, it seemed unlikely that academic theology could ever have much influence on politics. Then one form of
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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Another welcome review of Kelly Against Post-Liberalism and @mattsleat.bsky.social Post-Liberalism in @irishtimes.com on Sunday. @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social
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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
US publication day today @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I can’t remember where I’d written this (probably my book Liberal Realism) but someone kindly shared this passage 10 years ago today. And it’s interesting to look back on it and reflect how I’m now working on whether liberalism has a realistic yet more positive story it can tell.
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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Reposting this as US publication date is tomorrow @politybooks.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social - it is increasingly important to understand Postliberalism given its place in US and UK politics but it’s also important to understand how it might be challenged…
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Post-Liberalism to be published in North America in less than a month. Will be very interesting to see what Americans make of it! a.co/d/6yLCCqs
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Amazon.com: Post-Liberalism: 9781509562206: Sleat, Matt: Books
Amazon.com: Post-Liberalism: 9781509562206: Sleat, Matt: Books
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242.news @242news.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
🔊242.news podcast: "The politics of nostalgia" - interview with @pjthinker.bsky.social (@politybooks.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social) on the "dead end" of post-liberalism. twentyfourtwo.substack.com/p/podcast-th...
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🔊Podcast: "The politics of nostalgia"
Paul Kelly on why "family, faith and flag" is a dead end for the left
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Sheffield Political Theory Group @polshef.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Just published (open access) in The Review of Politics: Robin Douglass and Ed Hall, 'Judith Shklar's Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Judith Shklar’s Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance | The Review of Politics | Cambridge Core
Judith Shklar’s Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Great to discuss my new book and our post-liberal moment with Tim Gwynn Jones. open.substack.com/pub/twentyfo...
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🔊Podcast: "You capture political power and you use that to change society"
Matt Sleat on the new right, JD Vance and the post-liberal "moment"
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
You wait for some wins then two come along at once. Today Post-Liberalism is published - and my promotion to Professor has been officially confirmed. A rather wonderful way to end the year.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
"Postliberals often wildly misconstrue the history of liberal thought, interpreting the ideology’s core value to be libertine 'autonomy.'" Good @mattpolprof.bsky.social reminder that post-liberals erase egalitarian liberalism from the story entirely: jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
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Postliberals Don’t Understand What’s Wrong With America
Frustrated with the state of America, some on the Right have come to embrace postliberalism, an ideology that seeks to invigorate conservative politics by rejecting equality.
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Review of @pjthinker.bsky.social and my own books on post-liberalism in The Critic. Though I'm quite in favour of foppery, just not of the post-liberal kind. thecritic.co.uk/issues/decem...
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Bogged down in intellectual foppery | Tom Jones | The Critic Magazine
You know that something is really having an impact the moment people start writing books to criticise it.
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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Matt McManus at Jacobin reviews Paul Kelly and Matt Sleat on post-liberalism: jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
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Postliberals Don’t Understand What’s Wrong With America
Frustrated with the state of America, some on the Right have come to embrace postliberalism, an ideology that seeks to invigorate conservative politics by rejecting equality.
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Thanks to @mattpolprof.bsky.social for his engaged and thoughtful review of both my own and @pjthinker.bsky.social new books on post-liberalism.
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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
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Call for Nominations: Onora O’Neill Political Theory Prize
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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
There are two distinct but related stories behind the book. The first began with the rise of Blue Labour and its search for a new political economy following the Brown Gov defeat in 2010. What started as a left discourse with Cruddas, Rutherford, Pabst and Glasman, quickly turned right under Glasman
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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Marking one month since publication Watch out for some podcast appearances and reviews. Some growing interest amongst journalist - see Ross Douthat in @nytimes.com Also @mattsleat.bsky.social book coming shortly @politybooks.bsky.social (it’s good and it’s different so get both!!!)
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
While the US right is having a meltdown on the other place as to what post-liberalism is — or whether it’s even a thing — a quick reminder that my book on exactly that topic is out in the UK in less than a month (and in the US this February). Spoiler: it is a thing. amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A couple of years and a @leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship in the making, my book on post-liberalism is out next month and available to pre-order. www.amazon.co.uk/Post-Liberal...
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The University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The US vice-president, J. D. Vance, has identified himself as being “of the post-liberal right”. But what is post-liberalism and what does it mean for US government? @mattsleat.bsky.social, Reader in Political Theory, explains 👇 theconversation.com/j-d-vance-ca...
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J.D. Vance calls himself a ‘post-liberal’: here’s what that means for US government
J.D. Vance is religious, has conservative views on social issues, but also believes in big government’s power to change society.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 31/10/2025
J.D. Vance is religious, has conservative views on social issues, but also believes in big government’s power to change society.
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J.D. Vance calls himself a ‘post-liberal’: here’s what that means for US government
J.D. Vance is religious, has conservative views on social issues, but also believes in big government’s power to change society.
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
My short explainer on post-liberalism for The Conversation. theconversation.com/j-d-vance-ca...
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J.D. Vance calls himself a ‘post-liberal’: here’s what that means for US government
J.D. Vance is religious, has conservative views on social issues, but also believes in big government’s power to change society.
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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
‘Postliberalism offers no account of change nor of the future and that is why it with its populist politics of faith, family and flag is ultimately a dead end.’ Against Post-Liberalism by @pjthinker.bsky.social is out today in the UK! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Just finished this tremendous volume. Cannot believe I’d never read it before. Highly recommended. And think it might have given me an idea for my next research project.
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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Three days until publication on 24th October - might be of interest to @iandunt.bsky.social and to @sohrabahmari.bsky.social for different reasons. @politybooks.bsky.social
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
My colleague and friend Ed Hall is, by his own admission, not the best at the self-promotion that is part and parcel of modern academia. But I have just finished this and think it’s a really important book that political theorists of all stripes ought to read. amzn.eu/d/3RfY3xr
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Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century: Amazon.co.uk: Hall, Edward: 9780192870032: Books
Buy Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century by Hall, Edward (ISBN: 9780192870032) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders...
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Really pleased this has now come out. My thoughts on what a realist account of political obligations might look like. And a real privilege to among such a stellar cast of contributors. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Realism and Political Obligations
Abstract. Contemporary realists have yet to say much about political obligations. This is no mere oversight. Rather, this chapter argues that there are rea
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Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought @biapt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We are thrilled to announce that Joe Davidson is the winner of our BIAPT Early Career Prize for 2025! Joe’s work on utopia is just what the field needs at a time when political pessimism prevails. Full announcement below 👇 www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-early-...
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BIAPT Early-career prize winner 2025 - Joe Davidson - BIAPT
We are very happy to announce that Dr Joe Davidson has been awarded the BIAPT Early-Career Prize for 2025. Following completion of his PhD at King’s College (2022), Cambridge, Davidson won a highly co...
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Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought @biapt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
BIAPT is delighted to announce that its Mid-career prize for 2025 goes to Jemima Repo! Warm congratulations to her for huge contributions to gender theory, feminism, and biopolitics. Full statement below 👇 www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-mid-ca...
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BIAPT Mid-career prize 2025 - Jemima Repo - BIAPT
We are pleased to award the BIAPT Mid-Career Prize to Dr Jemima Repo, who is a Reader in Political and Feminist Theory at Newcastle University and an outstanding citizen of the international community...
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
‘Against Political Chmness’ by Paul Sagar. Great account of one of the key arguments for political realism. Thoroughly worth a read. open.substack.com/pub/conspicu...
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Against Political Chmess
Why too much political philosophy studies a game that nobody plays
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A couple of years and a Leverhulme Trust research fellowship in the making, I am excited to see that my book on post-liberalism is now available to pre-order. amzn.eu/d/7gmUUxD
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Post-Liberalism: Amazon.co.uk: Sleat, Matt: 9781509562190: Books
Buy Post-Liberalism 1 by Sleat, Matt (ISBN: 9781509562190) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Matt Sleat @mattsleat.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Who are the main contemporary writers countering the argument - made in different ways by Taylor, Siedentop, Gillespie, Holland, Milbank, et al. - that modernity was a development within rather than rejection of Christianity?
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