Interesting Links for 14-02-2020

[andrewducker]

In wake of Brexit, EU to put Cayman Islands on tax haven blacklist

(tags:tax uk europe )

There's nothing in the London coronavirus story about what happened to the Uber driver. Who will have then picked up dozens more people!

(tags:virus london taxi doom viaSwampers )

What the Rating Graph for Doctor Who tells me is that people don't hate Jodie Whittaker - give her a good story and it gets an 8.1. They hate the writing.

(tags:drwho visualisation )

RE: Criticism of Thirteenth Doctor for not knowing how to do Emotional Labour for Graham

(tags:women drwho emotions society )

Jules Verne's Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece Containing 4,000 illustrations

(tags:writing scifi history France illustration )

The Babylonians invented trigonometry a thousand years before the Greeks

(tags:history mathematics )

RBS Group to change its name to NatWest

(tags:banks scotland names )

Comments

[cmcmck]

I imagine the latter may not go down too well where you are!

[alithea]

No, given the long history of Royal Bank of Scotland, I suspect there will be fair few noses out of joint over it!

[andrewducker]

I'll be fine with it.

RBS has been a plague for the last decade or so!

[cmcmck]

Other half is still BoS but they haven't had the same issues.

[andrewducker]

Me too. They didn't overexpand themselves catastrophically so I'm less grumpy with them.

(Also, from talking to my friends are RBS it's not a great organisation)

[drplokta]

I assume RBS is preparing for Scottish independence. It will have to move out of Scotland if that happens, since an independent Scotland won’t have the currency reserves to offer credible deposit guarantees to a bank the size of RBS. (That problem may eventually go away, if it joins the EU and the euro, but RBS needs a solution that works on day one of independence.)

[alithea]

Yes, I suspect you're right, which is a good part of the reason I think there'll be noses out of joint over it, because some folks really don't want to concede that it's coming.

[danieldwilliam]

I've been unsure of Whittaker's performance since her third episode but uncertain what the cause was; the acting, directing or the script.

It's been an interesting exercise in the craft of drama.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I'm not convinced she would have been an amazing Doctor, but I think she would have at least been a good one, given better scripts.

[danieldwilliam]

I've been interested in the difference between a good performance and one that is personally to my choice.

As well as the questions around the script.

[danieldwilliam]

She's probably been the Doctor long enough that one could write a critical (i.e. about the poor quality) essay on her performance without being labled an MRA nutjob.

[jducoeur]

At this point, I'm really annoyed at the writers. I think Capaldi was largely wasted because of dumb scripts, and Whittaker mostly has been as well. The few times we've seen *good* scripts, they've been a breath of fresh air.

(This season has been rather better than the past few on average, but is still nowhere near as good as the Tenant days.)

[flick]

"There's nothing in the London coronavirus story about what happened to the Uber driver. Who will have then picked up dozens more people!"

The BBC was reporting, early this morning, that Uber had suspended his account as a precaution.

[andrewducker]

Thank you!

[cmcmck]

Apparently he also presented himself for quarantine so credit to him.

[andrewducker]

That's excellent news, thank you!