Linkdump 02-12-2017

[gominokouhai]

• Successful actress Meghan Markle to wed former soldier | JOE.co.uk 
  Oh great. Another year of endless headlines obsessing about some chick's frock.
  (tags: news journalism republicanism satire checkyourprivilege )
• Government confirms freeze on working age benefits | Independent 
  "longest fall in living standards in the past 60 years [...] The news came just twenty minutes after Clarence House announced Prince Harry’s engagement"
  (tags: republicanism politics bloodytories welfare news benefits classwar )
• The Vikings - key papers from Antiquity | Cambridge University Press 
  Ooh.
  (tags: history reading resources )
• 100 Tweets That Made British People Piss Themselves In 2017 | Buzzfeed 
  These are pretty funny.
  (tags: silly clickbait )
• Russell Crowe calls for fans to support Master and Commander sequel | Film-News.co.uk 
  Now this is the kind of online activism I can get behind. ON THE UPROLL, FIRE!
  (tags: movies film sailing clicktivism news books history )
• UK water firms admit using divining rods to find leaks and pipes | Guardian 
  "We've found that some of the older methods are just as effective [as] the new ones"
  (tags: natureoftruth news tech woo )

Comments

[cmcmck]

Saw that first one elsewhere and it made me grin as a good English republican.