Interesting Links for 12-11-2021

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Government appoints ex-Tory advisor married to Tory MP to help pick media regulator(tags:uk government corruption Conservatives regulation media )Soldiers should not be heroes(tags:military war society )The Gradual Extinction of Softness by Pol Pot(tags:life history Cambodia poverty death ) Nottingham College are embarrassing themselves with completely pointless security theatre(tags:security_theatre UK academia OhForFucksSake knife )Remembrance Day: 8 examples of the most unusual merchandise and memorabilia from over the years(tags:war history wtf viaClare )A metal guitarist thought Doomscroll would be a great name for a band. Video game developer Id Software had other ideas.(tags:Doom OhForFucksSake intellectual_property games music )UK an enabler of corruption, Nigerian anti-sleaze tsar tells Boris Johnson in stinging rebuke(tags:UK corruption Nigeria )Scotland to ban most single-use plastic from June 2022(tags:plastic environment Scotland )LGBTQ Employees Are Quitting the BBC Because They Say It’s Transphobic(tags:LGBT BBC bigotry transgender ) Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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