Interesting Links for 11-08-2018

[andrewducker]

Voting systems matter: the overlooked lesson from Macron for British politics

(tags: politics uk voting france )

Friends is the UK's most popular streaming show

(tags: comedy tv uk )

Somehow I'd failed to notice that Turkey and the USA are now in a trade war. Is there a list of countries that the US is in a slapfight with?

(tags: usa turkey trade )

Anne Frank Center asks Facebook to remove Holocaust denial pages

(tags: facebook Holocaust fraud )

Why Do We Still See A Drug-Free Birth As A Badge Of Honour?

(tags: medication pain childbirth )

UN says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps

(tags: china rights OhForFucksSake )

'Star Trek 4': Chris Pine, Chris Hemsworth Talks Fall Through

(tags: StarTrek fail movies )

Comments

[calimac]

I should add that I've heard of the Cooperative Party, albeit only because I've seen candidates in official election returns listed as "Labour and Cooperative" and I looked it up to see what that meant.

As the Cooperative Party has no existence outside the Labour umbrella, and since they first hitched up around 1920 never has, it has no relevance to discussions of third parties in British politics whatever. It's like discussing the National Liberals, especially after the Woolton-Teviot agreement, as if they had a separate existence from the Conservatives. They didn't. End of story.