Interesting Links for 06-06-2026

[andrewducker]

1. Let's celebrate the lowest Covid levels recorded since the pandemic started

(tags:pandemic GoodNews viaKenny )

2. A new Broadway play about Roald Dahl and his prejudice captures uncomfortable truths.

(tags:theatre bigotry Jews history writing )

3. Please Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240

(tags:transgender bigotry politics uk )

4. Children's Commissioner dranatically overstates how many young children see pornography

(tags:pornography children facts )

5. Jewish groups launch new diaspora movement rejecting Israel's ethno-nationalism

(tags:Jews )

6. Has Britain run out of "other people" to tax?

(tags:tax UK economics politics )

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

"a survey of 1,020 16-21-year-olds, which showed that 70% had seen online pornography" - I got an impression that these "scientists" are kind of sick. Is it British culture? (the idea of "violent pornography" also looks weird).

#6 is also a great article, thank you!

[andrewducker]

I don't think it's sick to try and understand how many people use pornography.

I'm surprised it's as low as 70% of 21 year olds.

[juan_gandhi]

Probably females are less inclined to watching porn; and if we average for both sexes (genders?), we may easily get 70%.

On the State of COVID-19

[dewline]

The one thing I'm certain of is that I don't trust the growing lack of testing. The will to further expand the lack of testing.

[aldabra]

6. That paper says Spain has phenomenally high tax rates on the lowest-paid. But ?yesterday? you posted a link to how well Spain was doing, with a booming economy and raised minimum wage and some sort of UBI for the poorest families. I suspect shenanigans in the tax paper. Perhaps a high marginal withdrawal rate on the UBI, which makes the "tax" rate look high but also makes the actual workers considerably better off than they would be without the remaining UBI?

[nancylebov]

5. An organization for diaspora Jews sounds like a good idea-- if it were opposed to anti-Semitism.

[andrewducker]

They're Jews looking for a future for Jews. Seems unlikely they'd be pro anti-Semitism.

[nancylebov]

I want more than just not mentioning the subject.

[andrewducker]

You want a definitive declaration that the Jews don't hate Jews?

Is this because you think they do?

[nancylebov]

I think there is a problem of growing hatred against Jews by non-Jews.

[andrewducker]

Yes, but why do you think these Jews might be complicit?

[nancylebov]

I don't think they're complicit (should I?), I think they're leaving out something important.

[andrewducker]

Ah, you're not worried that they're actively anti-Semitic, it's that you want to know that they're actively going to fight it. That makes sense, thank you.

[nancylebov]

I'm glad we worked it out.

[redbird]

I'd also like to see American Zionist groups make it clear that being anti-Netanyahu or opposed to the current policies of the Israeli government is not anti-Semitic. At least some of them seem to have decided not only that Zionism is intrinsic to Judaism, but that therefore nobody should criticize anything that the current Israeli government is doing.