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andrewducker) wrote2019-05-02 12:07 pm
andrewducker) wrote2019-05-02 12:07 pm
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Interesting Links for 02-05-2019
- Julian Assange jailed for 50 weeks for breaching bail
- (tags:JulianAssange )
- The Guardian breaks even
- (tags:business journalism uk )
- Are you an anti-Semite? Take our interactive test to find out!
- (tags:racism Jews satire politics uk )
- Chief whip warns cabinet that referendum or customs union are price of Brexit
- (tags:UK europe politics )
- A Christian minister talks about walking away from their faith
- (tags:religion Christianity society usa )
- Women not allowed to compete if they're too naturally good at sport
- (tags:sports testosterone OhForFucksSake women )
- A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
- (tags:Google ie6 browser history web youtube )
- I had not noticed this about the climax of this week's Game of Thrones
- (tags:gameofthrones )
- Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions to be net-zero by 2045
- (tags:globalwarming scotland GoodNews )
- Brexit will hammer Britain's financial services - and no-one seems to have noticed
- (tags:uk europe finance economy )
- 10% of British people go to church regularly. 26% of us believe Jesus died and was resurrected for our sins.
- (tags:uk christianity religion )
- 84% of people in the UK support the right of terminally ill people to kill themselves
- (tags:euthanasia uk )
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OK, so I loaded up Chrome - which I almost never use - and read the thing. I got the references in the first and last questions, of course; are the others in response to real incidents? (In particular I know nothing about the Eurovision song contest except that ABBA and Riverdance came from there.)
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The middle one is presumably Dana International, who was a trans Israeli singer. And presumably got a lot of racism thrown her way.
The mural one is this incident: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/23/corbyn-criticised-after-backing-artist-behind-antisemitic-mural
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Thanks for the references.