Interesting Links for 18-12-2018
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andrewducker- Workers get new rights in the UK
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- How "The Tinkerbell Theory of History" is carrying us down the road to ruin.
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- The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got
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- How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New
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- This is why techy 'solutions' for ageing and emergency care scare me. This one went out of business and this poor woman probably died thinking someone had been called.
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- Gently stroking babies reduces pain felt during medical procedures
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- People with extreme political views cannot tell when they are wrong
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- NAACP returns Facebook donation, calls for boycott on Tuesday, December 18
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- Hull hotel cancels Christmas bookings for homeless people
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- America uses corn for nearly everything
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- A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States — so She Lost Her Job
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- Deer poacher sentenced to watch Bambi in prison - BBC News
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- Banks to be banned from charging higher fees for unarranged overdrafts
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- 'Overactive Immune System' May Be The Cause Of ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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- Labour will wait until Brexit deal defeated for government no-confidence vote
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- Packaging producers to pay full recycling costs under waste scheme
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Date: 2018-12-18 11:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2018-12-18 02:18 pm (UTC)As a Quaker, I do not swear or sign oaths as they suggest a double standard of truth. Courts and such get round this in England and Scotland by allowing us to affirm.
Such a sacking would be illegal here as you'll be aware (asking people to swear such an oath would be illegal in the first place).
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Date: 2018-12-18 03:27 pm (UTC)