Interesting Links for 27-03-2026
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andrewducker- 1. Rates and Wrongs: Fixing UK Tax Cliff Edges and Tapers
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- 2. The UK is on course for Net Zero by 2050. With 64% of the population in favour
- (tags:UK globalwarming GoodNews )
- 3. The Lord of the Rings: Toughest quiz ever (I got 14/30)
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- 4. Trail-hunting set to be banned in landmark crackdown
- (tags:fox GoodNews uk labour )
- 5. False claims in a widely-cited paper. No corrections. No consequences. Welcome to the Business School.
- (tags:research fraud OhForFucksSake )
- 6. The speaker of the House of Commons cannot make Keir Starmer answer MP's questions
- (tags:politics questions )
- 7. How much would we get if we extracted North Sea Oil? (See top of page 4 of report - not much)
- (tags:oil uk )
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Date: 2026-03-27 02:47 pm (UTC)Much better than me. And I re-read the book this year!
(Albeit in 10 minute chunks while falling asleep)
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Date: 2026-03-27 02:36 pm (UTC)Not bad! I don't know a lot of obscure stuff, but a lot of bits stuck with me.
My proudest moment in a Tolkien quiz was the Cambridge Tolkien society vs Oxford. I knew LOTR much much less well than a lot of friends who knew elvish moderately well etc. But for some reason, I always remembered that Sam's rope was 30 ells long, and that was a question no-one else knew.
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Date: 2026-03-27 02:51 pm (UTC)Because I feel like the fisheries around Britain have enough trouble (due to overfishing in the 1970s/1980s/1990s) already.