Interesting Links for 01-10-2021
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andrewducker- JM Straczynski talks about why the new Babylon 5 series is a reboot.
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- Shakira: Singer attacked by a pair of wild boars
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- The German publisher who inserted soup adverts into the translated novels they published (including Terry Pratchett!)
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- Global Warming: Is the UK on track to meet its targets?
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- Government ban on inhumane LGBT conversion practices must avoid exemptions
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- Boris Johnson hands peerage and Scottish ministerial job to banker who gave party £147,500
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- Christmas meat under threat due to UK shortage of butchers
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Date: 2021-10-01 11:15 am (UTC)What amuses me is that the guy's name is Offord. Sounds like Ofcom or something like that. (Is there a list of agencies called Ofthis or Ofthat? Dashed if I can get Google to generate one.)
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Date: 2021-10-01 11:33 am (UTC)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regulators_in_the_United_Kingdom?wprov=sfla1
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Date: 2021-10-01 11:35 am (UTC)He would be the Office for the Regulation of River Crossings I think.
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Date: 2021-10-01 11:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-01 06:14 pm (UTC)2. She had the kind of exciting day that she might have preferred to avoid, didn't she?
3. May those of us who have not experienced such publishers avoid the experience!
5. Amen! That there are British Conservative MPs on the record as opposed to exceptions to a ban on conversion "therapy" is a praiseworthy thing. I hope such resistance continues.
6. So that's the going rate for a life peerage now?