Interesting Links for 07-11-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Keir Starmer is against using foreign people in the NHS

(tags:UK immigration labour NHS OhForFucksSake )

2. UK homes use 456 GB of data per month (we used 463, so only slightly above average!)

(tags:internet )

3. Edinburgh strip club ban: Sex workers union accuses council of 'empty promise' on strip club ban review

(tags:Edinburgh sexwork OhForFucksSake )

4. How Is Slavery Still Legal om America?

(tags:usa slavery prison viaBenWerdmuller )

5. Edinburgh Christmas Market named best festive market in Europe by National Geographic

(tags:edinburgh christmas markets )

6. Israel's new racist totalitarianism will have implications beyond the Middle East

(tags:israel )

7. British cucumbers, tomatoes and carrots will soon be harder to buy. Here's why

(tags:uk vegetables farming doom )

8. Some common geographic mental misplacements (best viewed on desktop)

(tags:geography maps misconceptions )

9. Map norths converge on Dorset village in historic first - will travel through the UK until July 2026

(tags:maps magnets navigation compass )

Comments

[bens_dad]

1. The NHS has a long history of needing foreign-trained workers. Is it fair that countries like the Philippines subsidise our health service ?

Starmer is right that we should train more of our own staff but the article suggests that he is going much further with lines like "We don't want open borders. Freedom of movement has gone and it's not coming back."
I cannot make up my mind whether that is his view or he is being selectively quoted to make him seem more right wing. "We" could be the labour party or the British people; and does he desire or lament the departure of freedom of movement ?

3. Is Edinburgh News making a point by spelling "reckless" "wreckless", or is it a Scots word ?

[andrewducker]

1) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-starmer-labour-eu-single-market-b2114948.html

3) Typo, I think.