Interesting Links for 02-10-2019

[andrewducker]

How do you Solve a Problem like Susan Pevensie?

(tags:narnia )

Can Queen Elizabeth sack Boris Johnson?

(tags:politics queen uk )

Are oysters vegan?

(tags:morality vegan food )

Your reminder that it would be illegal, under UK law, for us to put up border posts along the Irish border

(tags:UK NorthernIreland Ireland borders )

Email signature ruling cost seller £25,000

(tags:contracts email )

Comments

[cmcmck]

OFFS!

I'm plain common or garden veggie and I wouldn't eat oysters as they're a form of animal protein.

Breed sheep or whatever without faces and that makes them okay to eat?

Oy gevalt!

Why do people insist on tying themselves up in such moral knots?

[frith]

If oysters can't feel pain, then why do they coat the inside of their shells and the occasional grain of sand in slippery mother of pearl? Why do they close their shells?

[cmcmck]

Yes!

It's the same kind of perverted thinking that says it's okay to boil a lobster live and they sure as hell have faces and can feel pain!

Not to mention octopi who have brains of such complexity as to make our own look rather tame.

What this guy seems to mean is that they don't have a face I can anthropomorphise.

[drplokta]

If Parliament accepts the new Bexit plan, it can add a couple of lines to the Bill implementing it to repeal the conflicting legislation. If it doesn't, then obviously the problem doesn't arise. It's a non-issue (insofar as conflicting with UK law goes; obviously the fact that it conflicts with the Good Friday Agreement really is a problem).

[redbird]

I think that legislation is mostly relevant if Johnson manages a no-deal brexit by ignoring Parliament long enough. However, as far as I can tell, he can't do that without ignoring other legislation.

[drplokta]

But if it’s no deal, then it doesn’t matter that Boris’s proposed deal conflicts with existing law, because it will never be implemented anyway.

[movingfinger]

That judge in the .sig file ruling seems really... wrong.

I expect all legal professionals will be replacing .sig files with pictures of their cats immediately.

[andrewducker]

It did seem pretty bizarre to me.

[calimac]

Clear-minded discussion of the Problem of Susan, but your friend Andrew Rilstone was there first.