Interesting Links for 16-10-2025

1. Trying to make sense of the nonsensical decision to drop the Chinese spying prosecutions

(tags:spying china uk law government )

2. Keir Starmer's 'Brexit Is Bad, Let's Make It a Bit Worse' Strategy

(tags:labour economics europe doom uk politics )

3. Flapping-wing robot achieves bird-style self-takeoff (see movie S5 in the supplementary materials)

(tags:birds robots )

4. They traveled to Thailand. They wound up cyber scam slaves in Myanmar.

(tags:Thailand fraud crime )

5. Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World contest

(tags:photography )

6. NPR's veteran Pentagon reporter warns new media policy stifles journalism

(tags:USA military journalism censorship )

7. What the Chinese spying case witness statements reveal

(tags:law china spying uk )