Interesting Links for 01-12-2019

[andrewducker]

First catch your gannet ... then prepare for a challenge to nose and tastebuds

(tags:food birds scotland )

That time the Knights Hospitaller, of medieval crusading fame, 'accidentally' became a major European air power.

(tags:airplanes history Europe wtf Italy malta )

The Star Wars Holiday Special is on YouTube if you want to destroy any faith in humanity you had left

(tags:StarWars video christmas awful )

How Corbyn, Johnson and Swinson voted on LGBT issues and legislation

(tags:LGBT politics uk )

I'm with peanut butter penis guy

(tags:peanuts penis food funny viaSwampers )

Boris Johnson was personally warned about risks of freeing terrorists but said there was 'no money' to deradicalise them, ex-top prosecutor says

(tags:terrorism UK BorisJohnson )

10 things you should know about the London Bridge attacker and "early release"

(tags:law crime prison politics UK )

How Edinburgh became the Aids capital of Europe in the 1980s

(tags:aids history Edinburgh Scotland heroin drugs )

Comments

On item 6:

[dewline]

Johnson was explicitly warned and did the dumb thing anyway.

Hang that around his reputation's neck like the dead albatross it is.

[calimac]

I found this newspaper editorial rather more comprehensible on the topic of the attacker's early release than ten deep dives into mind-numbing legal minutiae.

[danieldwilliam]

One of my step-mothers once wrote to the Guardians Notes and Queries colun explaining the taste of seagull. Salty, greasy and unpleasant.

[andrewducker]

I thought the article was fascinating - but it didn't make me want to eat it!