Interesting Links for 15-02-2019

Colorado store closing after removing Nike merchandise over Kaepernick ad

(tags:usa politics sports )

Russian illustrations for Lord of the Rings in the style of medieval art

(tags:lotr art russia )

A Saudi app lets male "guardians" track women's movements, or even stop them from getting on a plane. Apple and Google offer it in their app stores ??? are they complicit?

(tags:saudiarabia surveillance women patriarchy Google apple )

Australian Border Force targeting women suspected of fleeing Saudi Arabia

(tags:australia asylum saudiarabia women OhForFucksSake )

Theresa May's defeat confirms that the only way to pass a Brexit deal is with Labour votes

(tags:UK europe politics )

May's latest Brexit defeat: The edifice of nonsense comes tumbling down

(tags:UK europe doom )

About an eighth of software developers work remotely

(tags:software remote work )

I just watched the trailer for "Tolkien". I can think of a few people whose heads are going to explode...

(tags:Tolkien lotr movies )

Brain function of night owls and larks differ

(tags:brain sleep time )

The British-Irish Dialect Quiz (I am, apparently, a Southerner)

(tags:language uk )

'Gunboat diplomacy' dispute upsets UK trade mission to China

(tags:uk trade china military OhForFucksSake )

Opposing Labour's fines for homeless people

(tags:labour homelessness manchester libdem )