Interesting Links for 14-09-2023

[andrewducker]

1. London hospital becomes first in the UK to perform 10,000 operations using a robot

(tags:robots surgery uk london )

2. Human memories are unreliable because of our tendency for complete storylines

(tags:stories psychology memory )

3. Theresa May is telling a fairytale about her Brexit deal. This is the truth

(tags:uk europe lies Conservatives )

4. UK government will not block Scots drug room pilot

(tags:Scotland drugs GoodNews UK )

5. Unfortunate Starlink 2 Hour Outage Last Night Just As Ukraine Attacked Sevastapol

(tags:Ukraine Russia space ElonMusk OhForFucksSake )

6. ScotRail peak fares to be scrapped as ministers try to push return to trains

(tags:Scotland trains money )

7. There are a *lot* of underwater cables

(tags:Ocean internet maps viaDanielDWilliam )

8. Alan Moore's 1986 opinions on superhero (and hero) discourse, and how ahead of the time they were.

(tags:superheroes alanmoore society history batman )

9. Scotland's population grew to record high (driven by migration)

(tags:scotland population )

10. Edinburgh Filmhouse: Lease deal agreed to save cinema

(tags:scotland edinburgh movies cinema )

Comments

[calimac]

3) Article says that there was a simple solution to the Brexit dilemma available to May, which was for the UK to leave the EU formally but stay in the single market and customs union.

That was not an option that could have been taken at the time, not according to anything I was reading about it, and I was taking in quite a lot on the topic then. Staying in the single market and customs union would have required the UK to remain under EU trade regulations, and getting out from under EU regulation was, we were repeatedly assured, the whole point of Brexit.

The article is correct that driving a customs border either between NI and the Republic, or down the Irish Sea, were the only other options, and that eventually Boris picked the last and pretended he hadn't.

Here's what I wrote at the time of Boris's actions.

[agoodwinsmith]

I have the most unflattering suspicions about Musque Esquire.