Interesting Links for 05-06-2020
Calls for anti-racist education to be taught in Scottish schools(tags:Scotland racism education )Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases. Here's why(tags:India pandemic )Woman loses bid for Irish epitaph on mother's grave(tags:Ireland language death )How The Lockdown Sex Ban Could 'Break The Chain' Of HIV Transmission(tags:pandemic hiv ) The chair of the US joint chiefs of staff reminds the military that the constitution safeguards freedom of both speech and assemblyAmazing that they should feel they need to
(tags:USA military freedom )Coronavirus: No 10 fails to deny reports Boris Johnson told Italian PM he wanted 'herd immunity'(tags:pandemic BorisJohnson ) Why telepathy (and other psychic nonsense) used to be popular in science fiction. And now isn't.(tags:scifi telepathy )Police in Norway Haven't Killed Anyone in Nearly 10 Years (2014 article, but pertinent right now)(tags:police USA viaCharlesStross )How much do we need the police?(tags:police USA ) How the UK paid off its slave owners, and kept paying off until 2015(tags:slavery UK history )Coronavirus: Patients refusing treatment because of fake news on social media(tags:NHS lies pandemic socialmedia OhForFucksSake )Public inquiry into Edinburgh tram project has now lasted longer than the building of line itself(tags:Edinburgh trams )Labour coming out with exactly the kind of nonsense welfare policy ideas that means I wouldn't vote for them. Must be a day with a Y in it.(tags:Labour welfare OhForFucksSake )Divorces rise by 30% in Saudi Arabia after quarantine uncovers polygamous husbands(tags:divorce saudiarabia polygamy pandemic viaElfy ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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(tags:USA military freedom )Coronavirus: No 10 fails to deny reports Boris Johnson told Italian PM he wanted 'herd immunity'(tags:pandemic BorisJohnson ) Why telepathy (and other psychic nonsense) used to be popular in science fiction. And now isn't.(tags:scifi telepathy )Police in Norway Haven't Killed Anyone in Nearly 10 Years (2014 article, but pertinent right now)(tags:police USA viaCharlesStross )How much do we need the police?(tags:police USA ) How the UK paid off its slave owners, and kept paying off until 2015(tags:slavery UK history )Coronavirus: Patients refusing treatment because of fake news on social media(tags:NHS lies pandemic socialmedia OhForFucksSake )Public inquiry into Edinburgh tram project has now lasted longer than the building of line itself(tags:Edinburgh trams )Labour coming out with exactly the kind of nonsense welfare policy ideas that means I wouldn't vote for them. Must be a day with a Y in it.(tags:Labour welfare OhForFucksSake )Divorces rise by 30% in Saudi Arabia after quarantine uncovers polygamous husbands(tags:divorce saudiarabia polygamy pandemic viaElfy ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
comments there.