Interesting Links for 28-06-2018

[andrewducker]

In defence of freedom of movement

(tags: immigration uk )

Replace "Crazy" With The Adjective You Actually Mean

(tags: mentalhealth language )

Talking to Google’s human-like phone AI

(tags: google voice ai )

When political parties become pyramid schemes

(tags: politics OhForFucksSake )

Philosophy Comedy Club, with Karl Marx

(tags: comic KarlMarx )

Hannah Gadsby's 'Nanette' Is a Radical, Transformative Work of Comedy

(tags: comedy lgbt )

The turbine-powered optical isolator - a spinning glass ball which rejects light from one direction

(tags: light physics )

Microsoft’s facial recognition service now less bad for nonwhites and women

(tags: faces race gender ai )

Migraines more common in men with higher levels of oestrogen

(tags: estrogen migraine men )

Resistbot helping US citizens contact their representatives

(tags: usa politics ViaDrCross )

How to design a constitution

(tags: constitution politics )

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Even funnier, the start of the actual constitution of the Lib Dems (ie, not the preamble, the actual constitutional bit) is:

1.1 The name of the Party shall be the Liberal Democrats. It may be additionally known in Welsh as Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol. It is referred to in this Constitution as “the Party”.

1.2 The objectives of the Party shall be:
(a) to be the successor to the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party
(“the Former Parties”);
(b) to seek to achieve the objects set forth in the Preamble to this Constitution; and
(c) in order to achieve such objects, to secure the election of Liberal Democrats as Members of Parliament, UK Members of the European Parliament and members of local and other elected public authorities


… which actually looks… familiar to those who have seen the Labour party constitution, doesn't it?

those 'values', of course, being the ones set out in the famous Clause IV… which is an actual part of the legally-binding constitution, not a non-binding fluffy preamble. So actually if anybody's going to win this 'whose constitution is more principled' war, I think it's got to be the party that puts its values in the actual legal document rather than relegating them to a preamble, hasn't it?)

(Unless you go, 'Ah ha! But look at point (b) which says they want to achieve the objects in the preamble! Labour has nothing like that does, it!'

Indeed. In order to find a mention of 'values' in the Labour constitution you have to go all the way to… point 3, the first one after the ones which were quote din that essay:

3. The Party shall bring together members and
supporters who share its values to develop
policies, make communities stronger through
collective action and support, and promote the
election of Labour Party representatives at all
levels of the democratic process.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, that's weird. The last paragraph seems to have been teleported to earlier than it should have been. But I'm sure you can all figure it out.