Interesting Links for 24-06-2015
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- Parkinson's disease begins in the gastrointestinal tract
- FactCheck: the truth about welfare cuts
- Taylor Swift betrayed to Roman authorities by disciple
- Grey by EL James – shortened, for your pleasure
- The evolution of the console controller
- Miriam Margoyles on what it was like working with the Monty Python team
- Smart insulin patch could replace painful injections for diabetes
- This Is What Modern Day Animals Look Like If They Were Drawn Like Dinosaurs
- If you have any doubt that the American Civil War was all about slavery
- College Rape Prevention Program Proves a Rare Success
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- How Russia intimidates people it doesn't like
- Scotland decides to stop funding Queen via Scottish crown estate
- Analysing what works and what doesn't in technical recruiting
- Business Can Pay to Train Its Own Work Force (It's not the job of universities)
- Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power
- The most Metal deaths in Middle Earth, ranked
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Date: 2015-06-24 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-06-24 08:21 pm (UTC)Scots would effectively still contribute to the costs of the monarchy because they pay taxes to the Treasury, which in turn supplies the money for the sovereign grant, he said.
A Scottish government spokeswoman added: “Scotland will continue to make the same financial contribution to the monarchy as at present – there will be no reduction in the sovereign grant as a result of devolution of the crown estate.”