Interesting Links for 04-04-2019
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andrewducker- Apparently there are schools which that solitary confinement, a form of torture, is appropriate for children.
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- Can MPs force laws on the Crown dependencies?
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- Rare Persian manuscripts dating back to 13th century now online
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- 2019 Hugo Award Finalists Announced
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- EU says it would not open talks with UK after no-deal Brexit until it agrees to divorce bill and Irish backstop
- To be honest, this seemed pretty obvious. If you could avoid the consequences by just saying "We'll make the deal next week" then the incentives would be all wrong.
(tags:europe uk ) - To catch a drug thief, hospital secretly recorded births, women's surgeries (and it gets worse from there)
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- 'Grassroots' Facebook Brexit ads secretly run by staff of Lynton Crosby firm
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- Trump's ramblings are getting worse. I do wonder what will come out once he's gone.
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- Labour confirms it wants to end freedom of movement (policy since 2017, and one of the many reasons they will not get my vote)
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- "I am not always very attached to being alive"
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- This is how I felt about Princess Diana's death
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- MDMA may treat PTSD by reopening sociable 'window' which closes after puberty (in mice)
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Date: 2019-04-05 10:19 am (UTC)I had no idea the UK was going to lose its collective shit: while it was in full cry I had a scary feeling that if I actually said what I felt in public I might be attacked by strangers. Hell, even noting publicly that the public discourse was unhealthily obsessive would have been dangerous.
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Date: 2019-04-06 08:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-07 01:38 am (UTC)Day of the funeral was worst, I'd forgotten to fuel the car, even the 24hr garages were shut. Head Office had insisted we shut, no one wanted to but being seen to not was dangerous
Maudlin sentimentality from the same idiots that went on to give us Brexit