Interesting Links for 20-09-2019

[andrewducker]

UK cannot meet EU deadline for Brexit plan and needs another year, government says

(tags:UK Europe incompetence OhForFucksSake )

Reviewing Tolkien

(tags:Tolkien movies review )

Outcry as Saga travel firm advertises cruise 'exclusively for Brits'

(tags:travel UK racism OhForFucksSake )

Green light for £314m overhaul of Edinburgh centre

(tags:transport city Edinburgh )

How a Nazi-punching satire led to the first union drive at a well-known tech company—and, workers say, the firing of two organizers in eight days.

(tags:Nazis Kickstarter unions OhForFucksSake )

Asylum seeker denied cancer treatment by Home Office dies

(tags:cancer death OhForFucksSake migration asylum )

Global dimming isn't worth taking into consideration

(tags:globalwarming pollution )

I may have to make one of these!

(tags:food wtf eggs )

New windfarms in the UK don't need subsidies

(tags:subsidies windpower uk electricity environment )

Sertraline: Antidepressant works by reducing anxiety symptoms

(tags:antidepressants anxiety psychology )

Comments

[andrewducker]

Thank you, that's useful context.

[rangifer]

And, of course, since neither the French nor the Finnish government has the power to make their joint ultimatum mean anything legally, it's not a hugely effective tool for putting real pressure on the UK. Politically it's more complicated, but basically I'm taking the whole September deadline thing as another expression of mounting French frustration.