Interesting Links for 05-05-2025

[andrewducker]

1. What kind of person is the founder of Blue Labour?

(tags:Labour OhForFucksSake politics UK )

2. Labour decides to destroy the universities funding model in order to satisfy bigots

(tags:university labour asylum UK politics OhForFucksSake )

3. The NHS will be paid to cut waiting lists - at great cost to patient safety

(tags:UK NHS OhForFucksSake )

4. Trump, brushing aside separation of church and state, establishes religious liberty commission

(tags:USA law religion politics )

5. Ex-CIA official says U.S. deliberately gave Ukraine just enough weapons to bleed, not enough to defeat Russia

(tags:Ukraine USA Russia war OhForFucksSake )

6. British pop star Olly Murs' gym transformation kicks off a fight about what women actually find attractive

(tags:women attraction )

7. Autism tips for teachers

(tags:autism teaching advice )

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Regarding Ukraine, yes, it's been obvious from almost the very beginning.

[wildeabandon]

4. There is a world in which a religious liberty commission is perfectly compatible with the separation of church and state. I wish it were this one.

6. I was about to wonder why what women find attractive would have any bearing on Olly Murs' aesthetic choices until I realised that there is in fact more than one British pop star called Olly. I'm not sure that should be allowed.

[andrewducker]

I wish it were this one too.

Is the other one Olly Alexander? I know nothing about most pop music.

[wildeabandon]

I was indeed thinking of Olly Alexander (who knows, there could even be more than two!) I also know basically nothing about pop music later than about 1990 except if it relates to Eurovision :)

[greenwoodside]

2. Argh. Just when I thought things might be stabilising in UK HE.

I was planning to start viewing properties next month. Any more stuff like this from Labour, and I can forget about it.