Interesting Links for 12-10-2017
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andrewducker- UK state should pay for housing, food, transport and internet, says report
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- Yorkshire devolution: Archbishop asked to help in stalemate
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- Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds your new music
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- Is federalism the answer to the Scottish constitutional question?
- Only if the UK is willing to also devolve to the regions. Otherwise it'll be horribly lopsided.
Ten regions of six million (ish) each should do it.
(tags: uk politics scotland ) - Scientists reveal how inflammation affects the life of brain cells (possibly causing depression)
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- What's the state of religion in Britain?
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- Would you like some approved random numbers?
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- Obama officials mocked Britain in secret and treated "special relationship" as a joke
- I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!
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- Terry Crews reveals that he was once sexually assaulted by a Hollywood executive
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- Meanwhile, inside the mind of an alt-right protestor
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- "I Bullshitted My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week"
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(tags: fashion fraud funny ) - Female dolphins evolved protective vaginas to stop unwanted males mating with them
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- The Airport Bomber From Last Week You Never Heard About
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- Equifax website hacked again, this time to redirect to fake Flash update
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- Scientists Can Read a Bird’s Brain and Predict Its Next Song
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- What Oculus Research are up to with VR and AR
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- How will Brexit affect health and health services in the UK? (See, particularly, figure 2)
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- IMF: higher taxes for rich will cut inequality without hitting growth
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Date: 2017-10-12 05:22 pm (UTC)As a US citizen, I don't think a country that made such a tremendous fuss over getting Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait has any cause to twit the British over the Falklands.
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Date: 2017-10-12 10:32 pm (UTC)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_and_Local_Government_Devolution_Act_2016
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Date: 2017-10-13 10:58 am (UTC)This is a George Osborne suggestion so you have to examine it carefully for the political booby trap hidden in the workings.
Most likely that it gives the Tory Party a visible route to political influence in strongly pro-Labour big cities. The Tories think they are more likely to win a mayoral election than to win control of the related councils.
There's a suspicion amongst the local authorities who might be interested in city-region status that it will be used by the Conservative Government as a way of pushing political responsibility for funding cuts to local politicians.
Yorkshire is a bit special. Population 5m. It's probably the largest distinct area in the UK without a unitary tier of local government and it has a very strong sense of itself. It also has many medium sized cities which are a little bit spread out. Leeds at 750k is the largest. Compared with Greater Manchester at about 2.5m.
It's also badly in need of some coherent strategic infrastructure investment. It's arguably never really recovered from the effect of the Rising of the North in 1569. For certain the current transport infrastructure is woeful.
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Date: 2017-10-13 11:13 am (UTC)"The Tories think they are more likely to win a mayoral election ..." Well, it worked in London. Once or twice.
"There's a suspicion ..." Probably well-founded. I recall similar shenanigans going on during the Thatcher era, including a quaint belief by the Tories that the people would blame the councils and not the government for the burden of the poll tax.
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Date: 2017-10-13 04:57 pm (UTC)"Meanwhile, inside the mind of an alt-right pastor"