Interesting Links for 09-05-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Labour welcomes Tory MP who attempted to interfere with the judge in her husband's sexual assault case

(tags:Labour OhForFucksSake politics UK )

2. SNP appoint forced-birth anti-LGBT politician funded by the religious-right to deputy first minister

(tags:lgbt abortion snp OhForFucksSake )

3. New Strategy Could Lead to Universal, Long-Lasting Flu Shot

(tags:disease vaccine research )

4. The Problems with the 'Live Action' Disney Remakes

(tags:Disney movies OhForFucksSake )

5. Keir Starmer refuses to comment on Natalie Elphicke's remarks about ex-husband's victims

(tags:Labour women OhForFucksSake )

6. The Billion Dollar War for "Bluey" (the most successful TV show that most people have never seen)

(tags:TV Disney children video viaSwampers )

7. I hadn't realised that the Eurovision backlash over Israel/Palestine was getting pubs to pull their showings

(tags:eurovision Gaza Israel genocide )

8. Major cities and towns in North America replaced by major cities across the Atlantic by latitude.

(tags:maps Europe USA )

9. A desire for a loud car with a modified muffler is predicted by being a man and higher scores on psychopathy and sadism

(tags:psychology cars noise )

10. Biden warns Israel US will halt weapons supplies if it invades Rafah

(tags:USA Israel Palestine )

11. Five babies have died with whooping cough in England this year as cases soar.

(tags:disease children )

Comments

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[danieldwilliam]

The lovely thing about PR, of course, is that there's space for multiple parties that can then work together on some issues and not on others.

Yes, but I sometimes think the way the independence issue shapes party politics in Scotland interacts with the MMP system we use to elect MSPs limits the scope for political parties to differentiate themselves enough along other axis.

I'd rather we used STV in large constituencies so we could favour or not individual candidates more easily,

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[andrewducker]

Open lists would, of course, solve similar issues.

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[danieldwilliam]

They would - al though I think Australia has had some unhappy experiences with them becoming too unwieldy for practical use.

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[andrewducker]

Definitely an issue where if you're electing 10 people and you've got 10 parties, you might well have 40-50 people to think about.

(Although I doubt I'd care that much about that many of them.)

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[andrewducker]

Oh, and it feels very much that being attached to the political system in England, and thus to FPTP is affecting things badly. Scottish Labour suddenly ruling out working with the SNP at the orders of the English party has not been a positive step.