Bella Postcard
A new series of micro blogs: a random ‘best of the web’ in under 250 words.
Yanis Varoufakis reports on a intriguing laboratory experiment “that has many implications for the distribution of social power”: ‘How Do the Economic Elites Get the Idea That They ‘Deserve’ More?’
I may be totally wrong but I haven’t seen any proper media coverage of this incredible story that the IRA commander at time of Shankill bombing was a police intelligence double-agent knowns as “Agent AA”. Kevin McKenna’s piece in the Guardian deserves attention – with the astonishing figures that we pay-in £323 in licence fees in Scotland – but ‘get out’ a BBC Scotland budget of £35 million. No wonder it’s relentlessly crap.
Over at Slate they have a piece about the connections and overlap between the slavery of Native Americans—and Africans. While the Independent covers the story of how Britain’s nuclear future will be decided by a private French company who are panicking about the £18 bn Hinkley Point project.
On a (much) lighter note how cool is this photo of Edinburgh from ‘about 1920’? (above) Following our obsession with fictional places we’re loving this map of Fairyland from 1918.
Amazing picture. They new a thing or two about printing a negative even in them days.