Interesting Links for 30-07-2018

[andrewducker]

The Advantages Of Hiring A Domestic Couple (such cost savings!)

(tags: wealth inequality work viaSwampers )

UK government shelves plan to publicise no deal preparations in case it turns public against Brexit

I look forward to the inevitable leaks
(tags: UK Europe doom government )

Apartheid in Israel

(tags: Israel apartheid OhForFucksSake Jews palestine )

Most capital cities are well off, but London is like another country

(tags: UK London inequality )

Plants produce ‘green vaccine’ against norovirus

(tags: vaccine virus plants )

When conductor and soloist clash, a performance can turn into a contest of wills

(tags: music )

The food industry agrees, stockpiling for Brexit isn't possible

(tags: UK Europe food doom )

Rightwing UK thinktank offered ministerial access to potential US donors

(tags: politics corruption uk )

New Zealand opposes EU and UK's WTO quota split proposal

(tags: trade UK Europe newzealand )

Where Boys Outperform Girls in Math: Rich, White and Suburban Districts

(tags: mathematics inequality gender )

Public opinion is shifting sharply against Brexit

(tags: UK Europe polls )

The current likelihood of various Brexit outcomes

Except that I'm still sceptical that a solution can be found to the Irish border problem.
(tags: UK Europe doom )

Recognition at last for Gentleman Jack, Britain’s ‘first modern lesbian’

(tags: lesbians lgbt uk history )

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

Yeah, from what I can make of it, there's just no solution to the Irish border. NI can't be both within the customs union to prevent a hard Ireland border, and outside of it to prevent a border between NI and the rest of the UK.

[danieldwilliam]

I listened to the interview of the IEA director and the Greenpeace person.

I don't think the IEA's behaviour is particularly unusual.

I don't think the IEA have broken any laws or even the guidance on the UK money in politics register. How it plays with the Charity Commission I'm not sure.

I don't think it's entirely ethical.

It's interesting that it's Greenpeace who have done this.

[cmcmck]

I suspect that the 'experts' can rant against stockpiling all they like- people are still going to do it.

[calimac]

No-deal preparations: The UK is getting to the point where leaking these plans is a necessary public service. I hope you have a whistleblower with sufficient courage.

Israel: This makes me very sad, but no sadder than I am for the UK or my own US. I'd have no more voted for Netanyahu than for Brexit, or than I did for Trump. We've got them anyway.

Conductor and soloist: I knew before reading that this would be about Bernstein and Gould, since that's just about the only time in classical concert history that such a clash has ever happened. Even the one the writer thinks they witnessed they're not entirely sure actually happened. (And that the interpretation of the meaning of Beethoven's slow movement requires a different tempo is ridiculous.)