Interesting Links for 09-04-2017

[andrewducker]

Girls' confidence level, not math ability hinders path to science degrees (tags: mathematics confidence gender ) Is terror more of a threat to Europe than before? (tags: terrorism europe ) There's something delightful about restaurant reviews of terrible, expensive, food (tags: restaurant review fail food money viaPatrickHadfield ) Leaked

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[bart_calendar]

I love the subtle way he points out that the restaurant is mostly where dudes take prostitutes.

[skington]

In the comments on his blog post about why the photos didn't resemble the prose (they were PR shots, not the actual thing), someone suggests that restaurants like this are all about money-laundering.

[kalimac]

Drat. All I can get his blog to say is "Error establishing a database connection."

[skington]

Try again? It turns out Jay Rayner's website wasn't specced to survive an onslaught from the commenters from the Guardian, plus additional viral traffic from e.g. our gracious host.

[kalimac]

I've noticed that many photos taken of Mrs May since she became PM make her look a lot more like Mrs Thatcher than she ever did previously.

This photo, however, makes her look like an incompetent professor at Hogwarts. It's the frazzled hair and the vacant expression.

[octopoid_horror]

It is very noticeable that the result of Brexit will be to fuck anyone under their mid thirties even more than they were already going to get shafted.

Have fun working until death in your polluted animal-free wasteland where you can't get healthcare! Unfortunately, since there doesn't seem to be a functional opposition actually opposed to most of this, not much chance of change (my assumption being that anyone who replaces Corbyn within Labour will hastily move so far rightwards in a desperate attempt to gain votes from the same pool of older voters that they'll end up supporting the same things as the Conservatives)

[kalimac]

Yes. Labour has done that before. More than once.

[skington]

It will be very interesting to see what the results of the French legislative elections are.

Given how spectacularly unpopular France's Socialist President François Hollande is (plus the general rule in recent French politics that “alternance” happens; viz. roughly: the government loses and the other side gets in), at the next Presidential elections you'd have expected the traditional right to win. The National Front (FN) is strong enough that everyone expected them to get through to the second round, so the question was always which of the traditional parties of government would join them. So until a few months ago the received wisdom would be that it would be Le Pen (FN) against Fillon (LR - the latest name for the French Tories).

The problem is that when ex-Prime-Minister François Fillon won a LR primary campaign against ex-Prime-Minister Alain Juppé, he did so at least partially because he very loudly claimed that he was clean as a whistle and that's what you'd want from a President, unlike (sotto vocce) Juppé, who was found

[andrewducker]

I don't know if you read Nick Barlow, but his thinking seems to largely echo yours on a new centre-ground party:
http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=5138

I'll look forward to seeing what the French voters do next!