Interesting Links for 20-01-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Sir Keir Starmer argues for closer economic relationship with EU at World Economic Forum

(tags:UK Europe labour )

2. Our robot overlords now have hands and can pick things up

(tags:robots video )

3. Which UK regions receive the most levelling up funding?

(tags:UK money FactCheck )

4. The strange death of Jeremy Clarkson's England

(tags:UK society celebrity )

5. This approach to their taxes highlights why I love Dreamwidth

(tags:tax accounting dreamwidth )

Comments

Point 5: Someone Else Who Gets It About Taxes

[dewline]

Considering how much benefit I've gotten from services pre-paid via my taxes in this past half-decade alone, I am absolutely loathe to try any scams to avoid being taxed at all. People who insist that "taxation is theft" don't live in the real worlds!

Re: Point 5: Someone Else Who Gets It About Taxes

[andrewducker]

Totally agreed.

Clarkson

[lauradi7dw]

USian here. My first exposure to Clarkson was his appearance on "Who do you think you are?" in which he spent most of the time complaining that his family wasn't rich and famous enough because some ancestor invented what we call a Mason jar (but it was patented by someone else there). No insights, no thoughtful comments. Then there was the speed limit thing, and then all the other stuff. The linked article was more tolerant of him and the culture that encouraged him than I ever would be.

Re: Clarkson

[andrewducker]

More tolerant than me, too.