Interesting Links for 24-01-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Would Labour's plan to put water bosses in the dock over sewage dumps work?

(tags:environment water uk labour )

2. 'Our System Needs to Be Broken, and He Is the Man to Do It' - an interview with a Trump supporter

(tags:politics usa doom )

3. More details emerge on the Chinese Hugos fiasco

(tags:hugo awards fandom china corruption )

Comments

[bens_dad]

1. I accuse the sub-editor responsible for that headline of a Tory bias.
I read the headline and assume that the piece will tell me that threatening to jail water bosses won't make our water cleaner.
The article is far more reasonable than that.

I'm impressed if the Tories really managed to up the max civil penalty from £million/4 to £billion/4.

What is the rule about questioning headlines always being answered in the negative ?

[andrewducker]

There's a jokey rule about it. But it's not true. Headlines with questions in them are more likely to be true than false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines#Studies