Interesting Links for 02-09-2015
- Union suspends planned Tube strikes - BBC News
Not yet done and dusted, but the September strikes have been cancelled.
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Interesting Links for 09-07-2015
- Tonight's Tube Strike Is Entirely Justified
It's more about needing limits on night work than the pay issues, and TFL made its last offer too late for the Unions to consult their members on it. Article is a point of view, but seems a fair point.
- LIVING WAGE FOUNDATION RESPONSE TO BUDGET 2015
“Is this really a Living Wage? The Living Wage is calculated according to the cost of living whereas the Low Pay Commission calculates a rate according to what the market can bear. Without a change of remit for the Low Pay Commission this is effectively a higher National Minimum Wage and not a Living Wage.”
Interesting Links for 09-09-2014
- Duchess of Cambridge pregnant: TUC leader Frances O’Grady speech on class system cut off by royal baby newsflash - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
“Good luck to the Duchess of Cambridge, but she would still have been pregnant when Frances finished speaking.”
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Interesting Links for 12-03-2014
- Oh shit, say tube drivers
They need a new 'Person to Scare the Shit Out of Capitalists'
Interesting Links for 04-02-2014
- Boris Johnson, not Bob Crow, is the one behaving terribly over the tube strike|Comment is free
'little is said of London's mayor breaking his promise not to close ticket offices'
- Ministers could slap VAT on Bitcoin trades
Interesting Links for 16-01-2014
- Kristen Stewart joins a "romantic" remake of 1984 because life is pain
- Amazon Warehouse Workers to Vote Today on Labor Union Representation | Re/code
- Britain could miss out on crazy, pointless war with China, says important American
“Your military will be dropping food from its only helicopter while the US Marines are surging towards Shanghai for reasons that will never be fully explained."
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Interesting Links for 17-12-2012
- Jack Hart obituary | Politics | The Guardian
'Signals specialist who fought Thatcher's ban on unions at GCHQ'
- cryptography - Why not use larger cipher keys? - IT Security
'[this implies] brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space.'
Interesting Links for 03-10-2012
- Closing arguments: do presidential debates matter? - Channel 4 News
It is the last chance to persuade voters to change their minds, as Obama and Romney face off in three televised encounters. But have debates ever influenced an election result?
- West Coast franchise award scrapped after Whitehall makes 'unacceptable mistakes' - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
"The original model didn't take into account inflation and also some elements of the passenger number increases over a number of years,"
- Unions fail to inform members they can opt out of Labour funding - Telegraph
Nearly all of the UK’s biggest unions fail to tell new members that they do not have to fund the Labour party when they join, independent research has found.
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- xandar; our reign has gone on long enoug
Interesting Links for 24-08-2012
- Some light on a key legal issue surrounding the Assange case | Love and Garbage – some commonplace musings
'As a result of this crucial case it is the right of any accused person who has breached bail conditions and is located in England to tell the prosecuting authorities where, when, and how he or she should be questioned.'
- How Hollywood Is Encouraging Online Piracy: Scientific American
'Of the 10 most pirated movies of 2011, guess how many of them are available to rent online, as I write this in midsummer 2012? Zero.'
- If 'Dark Knight Rises' Was 10 Times Shorter and More Honest | Cracked.com
- Conservative Party raise £1million through secretive supper clubs - Mirror Online
The system allows the party to trouser the cash without naming the wealthy backers it comes from
- Ashcroft tells David Cameron to defy Tory right on gay marriage - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
"People who oppose gay marriage would remember that he was in favour of it before the going got tough. Those who support it would see that he abandoned the idea in the face of a determined minority. Those who don't much care either way would notice another flip-flop."
- Constitutional Reform and Prince Harry's Balls
The reason that the son of Prince Harry has an outside chance of being Head of State and mine doesn’t is that Prince Harry has Magic Balls
- SearchTheMoney.com
Website looking at where Tory MPs get their donations. NB: Is a partisan website paid for by unions that fund the Labour Party. Still, some interesting stuff there, and may help the push towards party funding reform.