Interesting Links for 29-05-2022

[andrewducker]

1. The UK attorney general is lying about the law around transgender people

(tags:LGBT transgender UK politics conservatives OhForFucksSake )

2. How much money does Jack Monroe make from book sales?

(tags:books publishing money poverty food )

3. Artist Tracey Emin returns from cancer with raw Edinburgh show

(tags:Edinburgh art Scotland )

4. Uber and Lyft Are Out of Ideas, Jacking Up Prices in Desperation for Profit

(tags:taxi business epicfail )

5. Tax Flight Is a Myth: Higher State Taxes Bring More Revenue, Not More Migration

(tags:economics tax )

6. NHS bosses have blocked health advice for pregnant trans people for almost a year

(tags:NHS LGBT transgender pregnancy OhForFucksSake )

7. I'm actually hoping that Boris Johnson holds on until the next election, and drags the whole party down with him

(tags:BorisJohnson Conservatives )

8. Halsey's sold over 150 million records but her record label won't release a new song until it goes viral on TikTok. Is this the future of the music industry?

(tags:music business OhForFucksSake )

9. A weights and measures inspector takes apart the Imperial Measurements nonsense that Johnson has come out with

(tags:measurement UK OhForFucksSake nostalgia politics )

Comments

[coth]

It's a measure of my new paranoia that reading that thread by the weights and measures inspector makes me think:

So Boris' master plan involves reverting to imperial measures because that means he can scrap all the weights and measures 'red tape' because the metric won't be needed and the imperial will be too expensive to implement.

Of course, regulation of weights and measures has been one of the primary functions of the state for thousands of years. We really would be going back to the stone age.