Interesting Links for 29-11-2020

[andrewducker]

New plaque for racist Dundas statue in Edinburgh revealed: and it's already been put in place

(tags:Edinburgh slavery history )

Netflix to start declaring £1bn-plus UK revenues to HMRC

(tags:Netflix tax business UK )

Robert Fisk: Fabricator and fraudster (shameful for the newspapers that kept employing him)

(tags:fraud war journalism Syria )

This kind of awful employment stories is a major reason I'm in favour of UBI

(tags:GuaranteedIncome jobs OhForFucksSake )

'When it's brutal in the Cairngorms, it can kill you' - memories of 40 years of mountain rescue in Scotland

(tags:Scotland mountains winter snow )

Covid in Scotland: Mass testing in high risk communities to begin

(tags:Scotland pandemic testing )

Some fascinating history of African people at the Scottish court in the 1500s

(tags:Africa race scotland history UK )

Why did the Trump campaign not allege fraud in their post-election court cases?

(tags:fraud usa law elections )

Revealed: the millionaires hoarding UK fishing rights

(tags:fish UK rights )

Comments

[cmcmck]

There is a very worthwhile book under the title of: 'Black Tudors' by Miranda Kaufmann.

[nancylebov]

The wikipedia article about Fisk is admiring. I'm not quite in the mood to do the work, but would anyone else be interested? Wikipedia reports on controversies about people, so it's not as though you have to take a side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk

When I saw the claim of fabrications plus Fisk's statement that he sides with victims and that he was reporting on the middle east, I wondered whether he was accurate about Israel, though I'll not that if the article from The Critic is correct, he wasn't accurate about victims, either.

I found this: https://camera-uk.org/2014/04/27/fisking-robert-fisks-latest-on-israel-distortions-half-truths-and-fabrications/

And this, which says that Fisk was inaccurate in details, but got the essence right.

https://mondoweiss.net/2020/11/the-mideast-reporting-giant-robert-fisk-covered-israel-palestine-with-courage-and-passion/

[falsepositives]

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, is also proving controversial here in Toronto, where Dundas street is a major east west street in the city (and in others cities and a major town in Southern Ontario)

There is some talk of renaming the street (also Dundas square which is a newish square in the heart of Toronto) to honour a Major Black figure in early toronto history,

[andrewducker]

Excellent. I am hoping that Dundas Street here in Edinburgh fares similarly.

[danieldwilliam]

There are also several Melville place names in Edinburgh.