Interesting Links for 06-03-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Scottish Tories propose 14 years old for school leaving age

(tags:Education children scotland Conservatives )

2. Those who oppose the Chagos deal are wilfully ignoring the facts

(tags:diplomacy uk usa law )

3. Jeep Owners Fed Up With In-Car Pop-Up Ads

(tags:cars advertising OhForFucksSake )

4. UK's highest railway the Cairngorm funicular returns to service after 17-month closure

(tags:tourism Scotland trains mountains )

5. Neil Gaiman's defense against legal claims

(tags:neilgaiman rape law )

6. Doctors back total ban on hitting children in England

(tags:England children violence )

7. Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need

(tags:Finland homelessness GoodNews )

Comments

[hilarita]

1. I can only assume this is because they assume they will never be in power in Scotland, and thus not have to deal with the resulting rise in NEETs, especially the rising youth unemployment.
3. I'm not surprised. The trend to more ads on screens in public, that *move*, really really fucks me off anyway. I am already overwhelmed when in a busy public place - I don't need more moving shit in the corner of my vision. I am very very glad I'm not a car owner, because that sounds a) dangerous and b) very very annoying and then I suspect I would very very rapidly want to work out how to hack my car to fucking stop it doing that.
4. Yay!
6. About time.
7. Yay!

7. Finland

[lsanderson]

Not to quibble, he said quibbling, but that article is from 2020.11.10 or a couple of years ago in my vernacular.

Re: 7. Finland

[andrewducker]

You're right, it is! I didn't notice that. Hopefully things are progressing okay.

[juan_gandhi]

OMG, the Brits still beat the kids!

As to Finland, afaik, Sweden did it at least 30 years ago. But the homeless are just too lazy to go home every night, and prefer to sleep somewhere in the city.

[andrewducker]

The English beat their kids.
Illegal in Scotland for 5 years now.

I'm sure that some people feel more comfortable out of doors. But I'm glad that 80% of them use the opportunity to get back on their feet.

[juan_gandhi]

At times I suspect that the English imperial thinking is much closer to the Russian one than one can imagine.

[bens_dad]

1. Buried deep in this mad stupid idea is a currently ignored truth: our schools are failing some of out children.

However I don't see apprenticeships really helping. Industry (no doubt with some exceptions) wants their workforce ready-trained. I've even heard that the paperwork involved in having an apprentice put plumbers off so much that we ended up importing a generation rather than train our own.