Interesting Links for 19-01-2023

[andrewducker]

1. The Largest City Ever Destroyed. The forgotten city of Merv

(tags:death war mongolia turkmenistan )

2. Kanye West's lawyers set to take out newspaper adverts advising he is being dropped

(tags:wtf law advertising )

3. The Tories are taking 1984 as a manual again

(tags:conservatives 1984 asylum OhForFucksSake migration )

4. Scottish women's rights centres accuse UK ministers of anti-trans misinformation

(tags:bigotry LGBT transgender women UK Scotland law )

5. What's a girl gotta do to get a rape conviction around here?

(tags:rape law society OhForFucksSake uk RapeCulture police )

6. Five big problems the NHS in Scotland needs to fix

(tags:scotland nhs )

7. Voters are abandoning the Conservatives - many of them haven't moved to Labour

(tags:politics uk )

Comments

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[danieldwilliam]

400 people is a lot of people to kill in a day given that ancient battles appear to have casualty rates of 5-10%, implying that your average fighter was killing 0.1 of a person or less.

7 Tory Voters

[danieldwilliam]

It's definately the question of the next general election - are those 2019 Tory voters going to a) vote Tory again b) remain Don't Know and abstain c) Vote Labour d) vote for someone else and if so, whom.

And I think quite a lot of the triangulation we're seeing from the Labour Party at the moment is based on looking at that chart.