Interesting Links for 31-05-2023

[andrewducker]

1. A Woman Won a Cheese Rolling Race . . . Despite Being Knocked Unconscious

(tags:race cheese consciousness )

2. There can't be many actors who have played the same role for 38 years

(tags:acting longevity TV UK )

3. The British Newspapers collude with each other to protect their journalists from consequences (in this case, sexual harrassment)

(tags:uk media guardian sex harrassment journalism OhForFucksSake )

4. Regular reminder that Labour are a Brexit party

(tags:labour uk europe OhForFucksSake )

5. Like Cinemas, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Others To Carry Anti-Tobacco Warnings in India

(tags:India cigarettes streaming TV )

Comments

[simont]

#1: in a quick look, that's the only thing in your "race" category which means the word in that sense :-)

[bens_dad]

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-serving_soap_opera_actors
has him at number 27 in the list of currently serving actors and he doesn't make the top fifty all time.

There are ten members of the Archers cast (Radio Four) above Charlie, and Ken Barlow/Kevin Roach has twenty four years on him in Coronation Street.

I don't know whether it has changed now but the original opening credits shot in Casualty, with the Ambulance rushing down a hill in the dark, was shot where I lived at the time.

[danieldwilliam]

4) The Labour Party are currently a Brexit Party. I suspect that will soften in their second term.

The SNP might as well be a Brexit Party given that they appear to have stopped actually campaigning for Scottish independence.

[mountainkiss]

I like the juxtaposition of 'cheese' and 'consciousness'.

[penta]

4. Not from the UK, not a UK resident, but the link-blurb (ie, what you're saying while linking, not sure of the proper term or even a good term describing it) doesn't appear to be reflected by the article you linked to?

By which I mean that I get the sense from the article that Starmer is being pragmatic, in the sense of "Wish Brexit didn't happen; it did, though, and so now we have to 'play the ball as it lies', and from that perspective is much less clear that rejoining the EU (and the concessions that would have to be made as opposed to the terms under which the UK was a member) would be in the UK's interest now." In short, "the UK will get a worse deal than it previously had, and that worse deal might not be worth it". Is there something I'm missing?