Interesting Links for 10-01-2019

[andrewducker]

Drones deliver pollen, better fruit

(tags: drones bees fruit plants Technology )

Some quick takeaways on the 'reassurance to the DUP' document that's just been published by UK Government

(tags: UK europe NorthernIreland DUP )

Oxford students call for professor’s removal over alleged homophobia

(tags: lgbt Oxford academia )

Briefing note to Labour MPs says the party is proposing “a sensible Brexit”.

(tags: UK europe labour )

Labour finally explain what they want from Brexit. Can anyone explain it to me?

(tags: labour UK europe wtf )

Why are chefs like that?

(tags: cooking business behaviour )

US government shutdown: Where do we go from here?

(tags: usa politics doom )

In case you were wondering how little respect the British government had for constitutional process

(tags: UK government OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[xenophanean]

Corbyn's deal appears to be either:

"Fuck it, let's just join the EEA, but can we call it something else so we don't look crap".

Likely EU reaction: (resigned) "Sure, why not, but you'll get a slightly crappy version so it doesn't piss off Norway"

or

"Can we have *some* of the 4 freedoms, but not all of them?"

Likely EU reaction: (fury) "FFS, read the last, like, 300 memos where we have said WE WILL NOT FUCKING DO THIS! FFS We just can't even!"

[andrewducker]

I think Corbyn wants (2), or possibly doesn't know what he wants.

[xenophanean]

Yes, I worry that this is true. I think it's a complete non-starter, which frankly makes me want him to resign. It's utter crap.

[skington]

The Guardian's liveblog reckoned the main talking point from Corbyn's speech today was that he fundamentally doesn't care about Brexit; he's reflexively Eurosceptic for Bennite reasons, and because he fears the centre-right-dominated EU will never allow socialism in one country, but other than that he mostly cares about class divides, rich vs poor etc.

The problem is that increasingly the country's divisions are young vs old (a far better predictor of how you voted Tory vs Labour in England and Wales at the last general election), and increasingly remain vs leave.

[andrewducker]

I also think that he doesn't believe how bad Brexit will be. I saw something yesterday about how there are some very central people in the Labour Party who think it's mostly Project Fear.