Interesting Links for 14-11-2021

[andrewducker]

Patel’s plan to push back migrant boats in Channel thrown into doubt by Home Office’s 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 )

Comments

[dewline]

We already know the Brexiteers are looking to "liberate" - their probable word choice - the UK from the ECHR's jurisdiction. It's been one of their goals all along, so I doubt they're forgetting any of the rights they'd be taking away. The cruelties you describe and predict are themselves the Brexiteers' end goal. The cruelties are what they want.

[cmcmck]

They seem not to understand that the ECtHR is NOT an EU but a pan European organisation!

[dewline]

I think the richest and most fervent Brexiteers do understand this distinction, and see the ECHR as part of the same Problem: human rights protections are defeating the will of the money-laundering crowd, by preventing the UK from going full-autocracy.