Interesting Links for 24-07-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives

(tags:fraud research alzheimers OhForFucksSake )

2. Want to vote for the UK's next Prime Minister? Not a UK citizen (or resident)? No problem!

(tags:conservatives OhForFucksSake )

3. Tiktok fastest growing UK news source

(tags:news UK Doom )

4. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nadhim Zahawi, has been sending threatening letters to people investigating his tax affairs

(tags:UK politics tax libel OhForFucksSake conservatives )

5. 54 cases of Monkeypox in Scotland

(tags:Scotland disease )

6. The methods that fraudulent Chinese sellers use to game Amazon rankings

(tags:fraud Amazon China )

7. Massive queues at Dover: a story in 5 parts

(tags:migration UK Europe trade Doom )

8. The Sandman Trailer looks pretty awesome

(tags:Sandman TV trailer video )

9. The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change

(tags:globalwarming lies propaganda )

Comments

[andrewducker]

I'd say that people who are resident, particularly resident long-term should be able to be involved.

And you became a citizen in 1983 :-)

[anna_wing]

Being a citizen of an EU country is something of a unique case, since the EU is a supranational entity, rather than an international organisation. Elsewhere, however, we are in the world of nation-states, and a long-term resident foreigner remains a foreigner.