Interesting Links for 19-03-2021

[andrewducker]

The Conservatives Are Horrible Racist People: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill Edition

(tags:law conservatives racism OhForFucksSake )

UK local councils, courts, the police, transport and benefits all face budget cuts

(tags:UK austerity Doom )

Less Than One In Six Rape Victims Report Crimes To The Police (10% of 16-19 year olds)

(tags:rape police awful uk )

4 Million Vaccine Doses From India Are Delayed And 1.7 Million More Need Re-Testing

(tags:vaccine UK pandemic )

Ramping up the UK rollout of full-fibre broadband

(tags:UK broadband fibreoptics regulation )

BBC to move key jobs and programmes out of London

(tags:BBC )

Facebook moves in to haptics and electromyography

(tags:technology Facebook )

Spain: Parliament passes law legalizing assisted suicide

(tags:euthanasia Spain law )

Census 2021: Filling out the form? If you're not religious, say so

(tags:religion census UK )

Comments

[calimac]

Particular admiration of article on police bill for pointing out that what deters crime is not the length of the sentence, but the swiftness and certainty of judgment.

[andrewducker]

Yup! Something that's missed by lots of claimed law and order types.

[dewline]

1. That's just plain horrific, as planned by the bill's authors.

2. And then there's this: giving powers with one hand, taking away budgetary resources with the other?

3. More horror.

4. Stacked on top of horror...

6. Not sure what I make of this yet. BBC needs more editorial independence from the will of 10 Downing, and more budgetary freedom besides. This could improve or complicate things. Possibly both.

9. 2021 is also a census year in Canada, and that advice makes sense here too.

[cmcmck]

And if you are religious (I'm a Quaker) it may be wise not to answer it as the stats have been abused since the question's introduction.

I'm also bothered by the gender identity question- 'they' were pressurised by the usual suspects into making it largely meaningless so I didn't answer that one either. I suspect it will simply baffle many cis people.

The terf and transphobic mob seem to have all too much influence with the Tories. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised!