Interesting Links for 14-11-2021
Nov. 14th, 2021 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- Patelâs plan to push back migrant boats in Channel thrown into doubt by Home Officeâs own rules
- (tags:migration UK France asylum law )
- Edinburgh heritage group concerned over outdoor eating areas
- (tags:Edinburgh restaurants )
- Nuclear fusion power is much further away than I thought
- (tags:video fusion OhForFucksSake fraud )
- UK tourism is crashing. Here's why
- (tags:uk tourism pandemic europe doom )
- I see the Tories are adding bigots to the equalities committee
- (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry UK conservatives )
- Mandy Patinkin on the saddest part of filming The Princess Bride
- (tags:movies sadness PrincessBride swords )
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Date: 2021-11-14 12:26 pm (UTC)The Tories scare me as I see myself on the road back to being an unperson with zero rights. I wouldn't put it past them to ignore an ECtHR judgement which is how we got to where we are. :o(
They also forget that they would be taking away the rights of other people, to wit, my husband and those who call me 'Sister', 'Sister in Law', 'Aunt' and 'Great Aunt'
However, we survived then so..............
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Date: 2021-11-14 03:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-11-14 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-11-14 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-11-14 01:34 pm (UTC)4) So if most Europeans can't travel to the UK now because they don't have passports, not needing them to get around the EU, what has been the status of Britons? Were they, when the UK was in the EU, more likely to have passports than other EU citizens? I've heard of eligible Britons rushing to get Irish passports, but is that just a feature story or has there been a mass movement of Britons getting passports (Irish or UK) so that they can travel to the EU that hasn't been replicated in the other direction?
Incidentally: despite the lowering of commercial barriers between the US and Canada, travel barriers have gone up. Before 9/11 a passport was not required for US citizens to visit Canada, but a rule was instituted afterwards. And since the pandemic started, casual and vacation travel across the border has been completely prohibited, a rule only now, I think, beginning to be rescinded. (For most of this, for "Canada" also read "Mexico" but I rarely visit Mexico so I know less about it.)
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Date: 2021-11-14 01:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-11-14 06:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-11-14 06:52 pm (UTC)They tried to introduce them a while back and got a resounding no.
Our Tory friends don't like them at all.
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Date: 2021-11-14 05:21 pm (UTC)Ps. That's a reference to "70 million and 20 years old dinosaurs" joke, not actually happened :)
Mr. Patinkin re: fight scenes
Date: 2021-11-14 06:23 pm (UTC)And on the other, when the actors and crew are truly enjoying the work of the moment?
Yeah. The cruellest words for such people can indeed be "Cut! Print!"