Interesting Links for 08-12-2014

[andrewducker]

• Britain could drift towards a police state, says one of Britain’s top police officers
  (tags: politics police rights freespeech uk )
• Retired vampire hunter offers cursed sword for sale
  (tags: vampires swords )
• Stop Mocking Gluten-Free Faddists They’re just trying to feel better.
  (tags: gluten food )
• Scottish Devolution Proposals Fatally Flawed by

Comments

[gonzo21]

Zombies being so done is why pretty much every zombie book released these days is self-published on Amazon, where it sells, no doubt, about 2 copies.

[alitheapipkin]

I thought that Stoppard link would be about RGAD ;) To be fair, that fact the film changes the ending in a way which messes with the meaning (to my mind anyway) probably helps explain why people always ask him about it...

[gonzo21]

Also, I don't believe for a second that a CON/NAT coalition is a 10% probability. :)

The SNP would press the self-destruct button overnight if they even mooted the possibility of coalition with the Tories. They'd be done.

[andrewducker]

That's a 10% probability of it being _possible_, not of them actually going for it.

The question is - given a Con/SNP possibility, what else _is_ possible?

To be honest - by the looks of things the only option is going to be Lab+SNP+Lib:

http://electionforecast.co.uk/

[gonzo21]

It's interesting stuff isn't it, I like this close-call election business a lot more than landslides Con/Lab directions.

[danieldwilliam]

Salmond and Sturgen have been pretty explicit about not going in to coalition with the Tories. To the point where I hear Taylor Swift songs playing.

And I think they are right to do so, because facilitating a Tory Government would be electoral suicide for the SNP.

But I do wonder how much of a blind eye they could turn to a Tory minority government in exchange for Home Rule and a Home Nations Four Fold Veto on EU membership.

[steepholm]

"A story about burnt zombie toast. It's called 'The Unbread'."

"Overdone."

[danieldwilliam]

Time travelling zombies from the future trying to prevent the Zombie Apocalypse.

[kalimac]

Here's a phrasing that bugs me:

"Greater Manchester Police is the third largest police force in the country after the London Metropolitan Police and Police Scotland."

It makes me want to ask, "So what are the other two?" even though I know the answer.