Interesting Links for 18-02-2019

[andrewducker]

Can the Home Secretary prevent Shamina Begum returning to the UK?

(tags:UK terrorism rights law citizenship )

First power from world's biggest offshore wind farm

(tags:windpower uk )

Cooking roast dinner produces air pollution as bad as heavily polluted city streets

(tags:cooking pollution )

The Joy of Standards

(tags:standards history design )

Churchill Was More Villain Than Hero in Britain's Colonies

(tags:UK history )

People resort to violence because their moral codes demand it

(tags:morality violence viaCipherGoth )

After massively annoying off the Chinese government last week, the British move on to the Japanese one...

(tags:Japan trade fail OhForFucksSake uk )

Proposals for dealing with fraud in future elections

(tags:voting elections uk fraud )

If it weren't for the estate tax, the majority of the superwealthy's money would never be taxed

(tags:tax death wealth )

Labour rocked as seven MPs quit and set up 'The Independent Group'

Love to know how many of them supported AV...
(tags:politics uk labour doom )

Borders Railway overcrowding at acute level

(tags:trains transport scotland )

Comments

Labour Support for AV

[danieldwilliam]

Umunna and Coffey signed this.


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/dec/08/labour-yes-to-av

Angela Smith was against


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/lentingle/2011/01/yorkshire_labour_mps_split_on.html

[momentsmusicaux]

> A mother in the American South beats her child because he disobeyed her authority, to protect him from himself, and to ensure that he becomes a responsible adult.

When my 2-year-old refuses to let me brush her teeth, I pick her up and lie her across my lap and hold her mouth open and brush her teeth as she screams... all the while, telling myself that while I am satisfied this is for her own good, people who beat their children are similarly convinced.

[alithea]

I'd be more reassured about the home secretary not being able to bar that lass from the country if the current Government seemed to have any respect for the fact that making people stateless is against the law...

[calimac]

A breakaway group opposed to leftist extremism in the Labour Party! What a novel idea!

[nancylebov]

So, less kitchen pollution if you use sou vide.