Interesting Links for 14-03-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Work to begin immediately on £55m music centre vision for Edinburgh landmark (the old Royal High School on Calton Hill)

(tags:music school edinburgh )

2. Gary Lineker row: All the people employed or used in BBC programming who are outspoken on social media

(tags:bbc twitter socialnetworking )

3. The care worker recruitment crisis is even bigger than the NHS

(tags:jobs Doom care )

4. Why did 250,000 Britons die sooner than expected? (Austerity)

(tags:uk austerity death )

5. Silicon Valley Bank seem to have managed risk unusually badly

(tags:risk banking Technology epicfail )

6. Nabokov was not a fan of many people's interpretation of Lolita

(tags:abuse children rape writing )

7. Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Thing'

(tags:scifi funny music musicals )

8. The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man

(tags:Conservatives politics mistakes )

9. Trams! Invade Leith!

(tags:Edinburgh trams video transport )

10. What's Going On With Red Dwarf?

(tags:RedDwarf TV scifi )

Comments

[hairyears]

I have an unusual (in England) surname that is fairly common in Ireland, and a stereotypically-English given name that makes the combination very unusual indeed.

To the best of my knowledge, the only other person with my forename and surname is the former editor of the propaganda organ of an Irish political faction who were considered to be terrorists.


The majority of UK HR departments consider everyone with my surname to be the same person, and pointing out that our forenames differ doesn't always solve the problem.

[andrewducker]

That is spectacularly rubbish.