Interesting Links for 24-09-2020

[andrewducker]

Why Netflix Keeps Canceling Shows After Just 2 Seasons

(tags:TV business Netflix )

I am delighted to live in a country where police use of a Taser triggers an independent investigation

(tags:police Scotland regulation )

Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in "anti-intellectual times"

(tags:transgender jkrowling feminism )

Brexit: Police to stop lorries without permits entering Kent in new internal border

(tags:trade UK Europe Doom )

JPMorgan to move $230 billion of assets to Germany ahead of Brexit

(tags:UK Europe finance Doom )

Scotland's block grant from Westminster cut by £309m

(tags:Scotland tax money UK )

I think I might finally have found something I'd like read at my funeral

(tags:poetry death )

The experience of being a lawyer while also not being white sounds completely exhausting

(tags:racism UK law )

Sturgeon calls for stronger UK Covid restrictions

(tags:UK Scotland pandemic )

Ministers 'must tell students to stay on campus over Christmas' to prevent Covid-19 outbreaks (maybe should have mentioned that before they spent thousands of pounds to go there)

(tags:pandemic students university UK OhForFucksSake Doom )

Kubaba, the Bartender Who Became the First Woman Ruler in History

(tags:history women sumeria )

UK gin supply 'under threat' from deadly plant disease

(tags:alcohol UK disease )

Against the armed forces torturing people? Labour will sack you

Statement https://twitter.com/NadiaWhittomeMP/status/1309066157987639298?s=19
(tags:labour torture military )

UK's coldest September night in more than 20 years

(tags:weather UK Scotland )

Why it's wrong to think of the Northern Irish violence as primarily Catholic Vs Protestant

(tags:religion UK NorthernIreland history violence )

Comments

[f4f3]

Your funeral poem is lovely - I might add it on to Zelazny's "Agnostic's Prayer" which has always been a favourite of mine:


"Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness.
Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit.
I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony.
Amen"

[calimac]

You know what's left out of this plan to erect a border around Kent? Lorry drivers who are actually going to Kent. It says the Kent Access Permit will only be issued to drivers who have the paperwork to cross the Channel, so those who aren't crossing the Channel can't get in.

So if you're anywhere in Kent, forget about shops carrying supplies that come from elsewhere in the UK by lorry.

[andrewducker]

That's an excellent point!

[andrewducker]

Yeah, it's a mess. And apparently even more complex than that (see link tomorrow).

[ninetydegrees]

"anti-intellectual times"

Such an apt phrase. Hadn't heard it before. Thanks :)

[steepholm]

I really like the funeral poem, but I can't make sense of this line:

"And old me that wait to die."

Should "me" be "men", do you think?

[andrewducker]

It absolutely should (checking other sources).

Funeral poem

[anef]

I don't think that I could read that aloud at a funeral without bursting into tears. Or probably at any other time.

Re: Funeral poem

[andrewducker]

Thankfully I'll be dead for mine, so it will be someone else's problem ;-)