35% of UK adults aware of #eSports - but only 7% watch it
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-09-28-35-percent-of-uk-adults-aware-of-esports-but-only-7-percen
YouGov study puts Britain at the bottom of the table when compared to China, the US, Germany and more
TIGA and ITN Productions creating current affairs-style programme
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-09-28-tiga-and-itn-productions-creating-current-affairs-style-pr
Second show from partnership will explore the UK games industry’s contributions to the economy and need for more finance
#Oxford_Bags, the Ridiculously Wide-Legged Trousers of the 1920s - Atlas Obscura
▻http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/oxford-bags-pants
IN A 2013 ARTICLE FOR the Newsletter of the New Sheridan Club—a club dedicated to extremely British #foppishness—writer Sean Longden makes the following claim: “Only jeans can compete with bags in the history of 20th-century menswear.”
Bags.
What he’s talking about is a style of pant called the “Oxford bags,” a mysterious and, yes, influential design that achieved extreme popularity in the 1920s. Of course, in the cyclical world of fashion, the popularity of the Oxford bags didn’t end with a single tenure; they came back in the 1970s, and then, arguably, in the late 1990s and early 2000s. They are singularly ridiculous and delightful, at their extreme one of the silliest pant designs ever conceived. And there’s no reason to think they won’t be back again at some point.
C’était en réaction à l’interdiction des #pantalons_de_golf (ah, Tintin !)
The most-cited explanation for their size and name comes from 1924, at the University of Oxford, when the school administration supposedly banned the wearing of #knickerbockers (or, more specifically, #plus-fours). Knickerbockers are those baggy almost-pants that end at just below the knee. Plus-fours extend, as the name suggests, another four inches down. (There are also plus-sixes and plus-eights.) Plus-fours were, the story says, beloved amongst Oxfordians. As a rebellion, the students decided to keep wearing them—but to wear something over them, to hide them. Something fairly lightweight and billowy enough to hide the already loose plus-fours they loved so dearly. And so was born a fashion trend.
In the early 1970s, a new club trend started up in the cities of the north of England, spawning a movement which would come to be called #Northern_Soul. It was an unusual musical movement in that it didn’t actually involve new music; instead, it was essentially a fanbase of Northern English teens and twentysomethings with a passionate love of a particular brand of mid-1960s American soul. The music this scene favored was generally kind of sweet, up-tempo, doo-wop-inspired, pre-disco, pre-funk soul from Motown and Motown-inspired labels.
The fashion of Northern Soul clubgoers was just as specific and significantly older than the music they danced to: for men, it was, you guessed it, Oxford bags, paired usually with a tank top. But as with the likely original use of the Oxford bags, the Northern Soul kids liked Oxford bags because they were utilitarian: Northern Soul was very serious about its dance moves, which involved a lot of spinning and kicking the air and dropping down for splits.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2NySUcbv3w
Two Buddhists fined £15,000 for releasing crustaceans into sea | UK news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/23/two-buddhists-fined-15000-releasing-non-native-crustaceans-sea-brighton
Two Buddhists who released £5,000 worth of crustaceans into the Channel as part of a religious ceremony have been fined almost £15,000 for causing “untold damage” to the environment.
Zhixiong Li and Ni Li helped throw live crabs and lobsters into the sea off Brighton as part of a “life release” ceremony in 2015, a court has heard.
The pair were part of a group of almost 1,000 people celebrating the visit of the Taiwanese Buddhist master Hai Tao.
Their ritual was performed in the belief that returning animals to the wild is good karma. But because the crustaceans were not native species, they threatened other marine life and government agencies had to spend thousands of pounds in an attempt to recapture the shellfish, offering fishermen a bounty to reel them in.
[…]
Miller said Zhixiong Li had bought the local shellfish and hired the boat. Further investigations found that 361 American lobsters and 350 Dungeness (US) crabs had been bought from a wholesale fish supplier, SeeWoo, in Greenwich, south-east London, by Ni Li.
[…]
Only 323 crustaceans have been recovered and the most recent American lobsters found had been carrying “viable eggs”, showing they had been breeding.
Record attendance for tenth anniversary #EGX, 2018 dates revealed
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-09-25-record-attendance-for-tenth-anniversary-egx-2018-dates-rev
UK’s largest games show will return to Birmingham NEC from September 20th to 23rd
A disappointing week for UK game sales. Maybe.
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-09-25-a-disappointing-week-for-uk-game-sales-maybe
Project Cars 2 makes it to No.2 as it struggles to reach heights of the original… or at least that’s what we guess
Morning Star : Britain buries its bloody role in Indonesia | The People’s Daily
▻http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-2fd5-Britain-buries-its-bloody-role-in-Indonesia
THE attempts to prevent a summit from going ahead in Jakarta on the massacres of 1965 show just how great a step was taken when the International People’s Tribunal into the killings reported last year.
They also underline how much work is left to be done. It is significant that the tribunal was held in The Hague, and that the Indonesian, British and US governments all rejected invitations to participate.
Britain is vital to our understanding of the events of 1965 — this is far from a matter of curiosity about another country’s history but an episode in which our own government and its major ally were deeply involved.
The Latest: Iraq [wants a nuclear reactor] - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-latest-uae-says-iran-is-main-obstacle-to-arab-peace/2017/09/22/798eead8-9ffb-11e7-b2a7-bc70b6f98089_story.html
Iraq’s foreign minister is asking nuclear countries for help building a nuclear reactor, saying the country has a right to use nuclear power peacefully as a party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Ibrahim al-Jaafari made the request in his speech Saturday to the U.N. General Assembly’s annual ministerial meeting.
Former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein’s previous efforts to build a nuclear reactor were met with an Israeli bombing in 1981 and years of suspicion about his intentions.
The NPT, which Iraq ratified in 1969, sought to prevent the spread of atomic arms beyond the five original nuclear powers — the U.S., Russia, Britain, France and China.
Al-Jaafari said Saturday that based on this right under the NPT, Iraq calls for help from our “kindred, nuclear countries.”
The Killing of History
▻https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/21/the-killing-of-history
I watched the first episode in New York. It leaves you in no doubt of its intentions right from the start. The narrator says the war “was begun in good faith by decent people out of fateful misunderstandings, American overconfidence and Cold War misunderstandings.”
The dishonesty of this statement is not surprising. The cynical fabrication of “false flags” that led to the invasion of Vietnam is a matter of record – the Gulf of Tonkin “incident” in 1964, which Burns promotes as true, was just one. The lies litter a multitude of official documents, notably the Pentagon Papers, which the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg released in 1971.
There was no good faith. The faith was rotten and cancerous. For me – as it must be for many Americans – it is difficult to watch the film’s jumble of “red peril” maps, unexplained interviewees, ineptly cut archive and maudlin American battlefield sequences. In the series’ press release in Britain — the BBC will show it — there is no mention of Vietnamese dead, only Americans.
“We are all searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy,” Novick is quoted as saying. How very post-modern.
All this will be familiar to those who have observed how the American media and popular culture behemoth has revised and served up the great crime of the second half of the Twentieth Century: from “The Green Berets” and “The Deer Hunter” to “Rambo” and, in so doing, has legitimized subsequent wars of aggression. The revisionism never stops and the blood never dries. The invader is pitied and purged of guilt, while “searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy.” Cue Bob Dylan: “Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?”
What ‘Decency’ and ‘Good Faith’?
To the north, in Quang Tri province, more bombs were dropped than in all of Germany during the Second World War. Since 1975, unexploded ordnance has caused more than 40,000 deaths in mostly “South Vietnam,” the country America claimed to “save” and, with France, conceived as a singularly imperial ruse.
The “meaning” of the Vietnam War is no different from the meaning of the genocidal campaign against the Native Americans, the colonial massacres in the Philippines, the atomic bombings of Japan, the leveling of every city in North Korea. The aim was described by Colonel Edward Lansdale, the famous CIA man on whom Graham Greene based his central character in The Quiet American.
Quoting Robert Taber’s The War of the Flea, Lansdale said, “There is only one means of defeating an insurgent people who will not surrender, and that is extermination. There is only one way to control a territory that harbours resistance, and that is to turn it into a desert.”
Nothing has changed. When Donald Trump addressed the United Nations on Sept. 19 – a body established to spare humanity the “scourge of war” – he declared he was “ready, willing and able” to “totally destroy” North Korea and its 25 million people. His audience gasped, but Trump’s language was not unusual. His rival for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, had boasted she was prepared to “totally obliterate” Iran, a nation of more than 80 million people. This is the American Way; only the euphemisms are missing now.
Returning to the U.S., I am struck by the silence and the absence of an opposition – on the streets, in journalism and the arts, as if dissent once tolerated in the “mainstream” has regressed to a dissidence: a metaphoric underground.
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/guerre-du-vietnam-34-les-images-de-la-guerre
#Guerre_des_images et imaginaires de guerre dans le cinéma de science-fiction nord-américain
Depuis la #guerre_du_Viêt-nam, le cinéma de Science-fiction Nord Américain, avec notamment des cinéastes comme John Carpenter, John McTiernan ou James Cameron et Paul Verhoeven, s’est fait l’écho de l’histoire sociale, politique ou belliqueuse du pays, à travers des systèmes d’échos, d’échanges et d’influences entre l’imaginaire et l’histoire d’une part, et entre le cinéma et la télévision d’autre part. Ces auteurs augurent moins des dérives à venir qu’ils n’énoncent des problématiques contemporaines, leurs imaginaires du futur, en se nourrissant de ces histoires inventées, nous parlent d’une histoire « en train de se faire », tout en s’inscrivant au cœur d’un questionnement sur la place de l’image dans les représentations historiques, mais aussi son rôle passé, présent et à venir dans l’évolution des sociétés modernes.
▻http://revel.unice.fr/cycnos/index.html?id=517
❝We had to be extremely careful because we had limited amounts of film that had been distributed to us by our paper. For us, one photo was like a bullet ❝
Nguyen Dinh UU
Arte aurait donc diffusé le même reportage : ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/631910
@Kassem
Je crois que les américains ont droit à 18h de documentaire, effectivement il s’agit du même.
Ken Burns Says the Vietnam War Was “Begun in Good Faith.” So Was Every Other Lousy War.
▻https://theintercept.com/2017/09/24/ken-burns-vietnam-war-decent-people-good-faith-afghanistan-soviets
Except that actually wasn’t a U.S. State Department cable about Vietnam and Nguyen Van Thieu. It was a December 27, 1979 missive from the Soviet Foreign Ministry about the new Afghan president Babrak Karmal, who had been installed by the Soviet troops who had just entered Afghanistan. All that was changed from the original Soviet cable is a substitution of references to Vietnam with Afghanistan and mentions of the U.S. with the Soviet Union. (As Thieu’s predecessor Ngô Dình Diem had dissatisfied the U.S. and somehow ended up dead, so too with the Soviets and Karmal’s predecessor.)
So what does this Soviet cable — filled with sincere moral fervor about helping Afghanistan — demonstrate? That all catastrophic wars are started by people who believe they’re the good guys.
So Burns and Novick aren’t wrong, exactly, about the good faith of the decent Americans who devastated Vietnam. But what truly matters is, what difference does it make? Saying that these U.S. officials wanted to do the right thing is the same as explaining, “America’s involvement in Vietnam was begun by human beings, who breathed air, ate food, and used their legs to walk around.”
There Is No Rehabilitating the Vietnam War | By Robert Freeman | Common Dreams
▻https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/09/24/there-no-rehabilitating-vietnam-war
There is enormous pressure and a lot of money working to rehabilitate Vietnam, to put the guilt and the shame of it behind us. But it was precisely the guilt of the people, their shame at what was being done in their name, and their courage to denounce it that made it impossible for their government to carry out the savagery any longer.
“It’s important to remember that neither Vietnam, nor Laos, nor Cambodia for that matter, ever attacked the United States. They never wanted to attack. They never tried to attack. They never had the capacity to attack. They had simply wanted their own way of life.”
Those are not the words of a leftist pundit or a scribbling anti-American. They are the words of H.R. McMaster, the sitting National Security Advisor to the President of the United States.
VIETNAM FULL DISCLOSURE
▻http://vietnamfulldisclosure.org
On May 25, 2012, in announcing a 13-year long commemoration of the war in Viet Nam funded by Congress at $65 million, President Obama proclaimed: “As we observe the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, we reflect with solemn reverence upon the valor of a generation that served with honor. We pay tribute to the more than 3 million servicemen and women who left their families to serve bravely, a world away… They pushed through jungles and rice paddies, heat and monsoon, fighting heroically to protect the ideals we hold dear as Americans. Through more than a decade of combat, over air, land, and sea, these proud Americans upheld the highest traditions of our Armed Forces.”[i]
Commemorations are acts of choosing what to remember about something presumably of significance. There are two parts to this:
creating a memory which is inevitably a direction to remember some things rather than others; a memory with a purpose; ostensibly to honor and thereby define honor for some future purpose;
defining some event as significant: making a major contribution to our world, a turning point.
So I will try to make an argument for the significance of the war and point at what I think ought to be remembered which will diverge from hyperbolic salutations of soldierly valor – though valor there was — to something more substantive. It will end up at cross purposes to Obama’s, I fear.
So let me develop an argument at three levels:
the war’s impact on the U.S.;
its impact on Vietnamese;
its impact on the world.
THE KEN BURNS VIETNAM WAR DOCUMENTARY GLOSSES OVER DEVASTATING CIVILIAN TOLL
▻https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/the-ken-burns-vietnam-war-documentary-glosses-over-devastating-civilia
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdTx6zLY0Zk
Vietnam War: The Face of the Enemy (Vietnamese Perspective)
Why Americans still can’t move past Vietnam
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/10/10/why-americans-still-cant-move-past-vietnam/?tid=sm_tw
#Greenpeace boards ship in bid to halt delivery of UK-bound #VW #diesel cars
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-volkswagen-emissions-britain/greenpeace-boards-ship-in-bid-to-halt-delivery-of-uk-bound-vw-diesel-cars-i
Greenpeace activists boarded a ship arriving in Britain on Thursday to stop the delivery of more than 1,000 Volkswagen cars from Germany while others sought to immobilise vehicles at a port in anti-diesel protests.
VW admitted cheating diesel emissions tests in 2015, triggering political and consumer pressure that has caused a slump in sales of diesel cars in major markets, with governments announcing plans to ban vehicles powered by conventional combustion engines.
Greenpeace said its volunteers had boarded the ship in the Thames Estuary in an attempt to stop it unloading at the port of Sheerness in the southeast of England.
The ship had moved to an anchorage point off the coast of Margate on Thursday afternoon, VW said.
Two Greenpeace activists were still on board, having unfurled a banner with the words “Ditch Diesel” alongside an image of a young girl suffering from a respiratory illness, a spokesman for the environmental pressure group said.
Le navire, non cité dans l’article est le Elbe Highway, sous pavillon des Bermudes, annonce un trajet retour de Sheerness à Emden, mais est en route vers le sud devant Margate.
UK banks to check 70m bank accounts in search for illegal immigrants
Exclusive: From January banks will be enrolled in Theresa May’s plans to create ‘hostile environment’ for illegal migrants
Exclusive: From January banks will be enrolled in Theresa May’s plans to create ‘#hostile_environment’ for illegal migrants
▻https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/21/uk-banks-to-check-70m-bank-accounts-in-search-for-illegal-immigrant
#it_has_begun #régression #migrations #sans-papiers #UK #surveillance #Angleterre #collaboration #police #frontières #contrôles_frontaliers #politique_migratoire #environnement_hostile #persécution #harcèlement
#frontières_mobiles? #mobile_borders
Si d’autres personnes veulent bien m’aider avec des tags...
cc @reka
J’avais un tag pour ce genre de truc, mais je ne l’ai pas utilisé ces derniers temps : #big_brother et #1984 —> ça regroupe ce genre de signalements
Revealed: The Best Places To Work in the UK games industry
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-09-21-revealed-the-best-places-to-work-in-the-uk-games-industry
Interviews with all 12 winners of these new awards
“We’re in danger of talking ourselves out of VR and AR”
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-09-21-were-in-danger-of-talking-ourselves-out-of-vr-and-ar
A GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit panel discussed the need for patience among UK investors, and the earning potential of serious VR games for developers
Work, capital and the ’administration of punishment’ | MR Online
▻https://mronline.org/2017/09/19/work-capital-and-the-administration-of-punishment
Earlier this summer, the British Prime Minister Theresa May launched the report of the ‘Taylor Review of Modern Employment Practices’: the outcome of a ten-month fact-finding exercise taking in evidence from a range of bodies and organisations across the UK, as well as a series of regional public meetings and ‘innumerable’ roundtables and discussions. Billed by the government as an ‘independent review’ considering ‘the implications of new forms of work on worker rights and responsibilities, as well as on employer freedoms and obligations,’ the report culminated in a ‘national strategy for work’ claiming to ‘enable a significant shift in the quality of work in the UK economy.’
At the heart of the Taylor Review was the notion of a ‘good work economy’: one building ‘on the distinctive strengths of our existing labour market and framework of regulation; the British way.’ And from the outset it bombastically championed a labour market which it described as ‘rightly seen internationally as largely successful,’ as well as lauding the ‘flexibility’ that ‘is a key contributor to [its] positive performance.’ Despite stating that its measures would ‘tackle exploitation in the labour market’ then, it actually appeared more interested in strengthening this labour market model’s dominant trajectory. And this was as unremarkable as it was unsurprising. The review was led by a former policy advisor to Tony Blair; and as one among many of its critics pointed out, given that the four-strong panel also included a solicitor whose firm advises employers on industrial relations and a Deliveroo investor who ‘didn’t sell his stake in the company until four months after the review began,’ many had low expectations from the start. Indeed, as one expert in industrial relations succinctly put it, one of the main outcomes of the entire process was to encourage the government ‘to merely carry on doing what it is already doing – coaxing, encouraging, cajoling and exhorting employers to be nicer and better to their employees for their own sake as well as those of the employees – but all without the force of law.’
Slightly Mad CEO all but confirms six-year Fast & Furious deal
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-09-21-slightly-mad-ceo-all-but-confirms-six-year-fast-and-furiou
Ian Bell lets slips UK racing studio’s plans after this week’s Project Cars 2 launch
Supercell, Rovio, Zynga, Remedy, EA and more on board for One Special Day
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-09-21-supercell-rovio-zynga-remedy-ea-and-more-on-board-for-one-
More than 30 major #Mobile game developers raising money for #Charity by donating 100% of UK revenue for 24 hours
New agreement strengthens UK-Saudi Arabia Defence relationship - GOV.UK
▻https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-agreement-strengthens-uk-saudi-arabia-defence-relationship
The governments of the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have announced a new Military and Security Cooperation Agreement, signed today in Jeddah by the Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon and the Saudi Crown Prince HRH Mohammed bin Salman.
How much would each researcher receive if competitive government research funding were distributed equally among researchers?
Scientists are increasingly dissatisfied with funding systems that rely on peer assessment and, accordingly, have suggested several proposals for reform. One of these proposals is to distribute available funds equally among all qualified researchers, with no interference from #peer_review. Despite its numerous benefits, such egalitarian sharing faces the objection, among others, that it would lead to an unacceptable dilution of resources. The aim of the present paper is to assess this particular objection. We estimate (for the Netherlands, the U.S. and the U.K.) how much researchers would receive were they to get an equal share of the government budgets that are currently allocated through competitive peer assessment. For the Netherlands, we furthermore estimate what researchers would receive were we to differentiate between researchers working in low-cost, intermediate-cost and high-cost disciplines. Given these estimates, we then determine what researchers could afford in terms of PhD students, Postdocs, travel and equipment. According to our results, researchers could, on average, maintain current PhD student and Postdoc employment levels, and still have at their disposal a moderate (the U.K.) to considerable (the Netherlands, U.S.) budget for travel and equipment. This suggests that the worry that egalitarian sharing leads to unacceptable dilution of resources is unjustified. Indeed, our results strongly suggest that there is room for far more egalitarian distribution of funds than happens in the highly competitive funding schemes so prevalent today.
▻https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28886054
#recherche #université #égalité #projets_de_recherche #économie #fonds_de_recherche
cc @reka
REVEALED: Both sides of Gulf crisis listed as ’priority markets’ for UK arms export push | Middle East Eye
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/revealed-both-sides-gulf-dispute-listed-priority-market-uk-arms-11274
The UK government is being accused of fanning the flames of the Gulf crisis after it included both sides of the dispute in a newly published list of countries identified by officials as “priority markets” for the UK’s £12bn defence industry, Middle East Eye can reveal.
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain are listed alongside regional rival Qatar on a list of 46 nations highlighted by Whitehall officials as potentially lucrative markets for weapons.
The list, which has been seen by MEE, comes on the eve of the world’s largest arms fair in London next week. It signals a dramatic expansion in efforts to boost arms sales to the Middle East in the wake of the Brexit vote.
In addition to including both sides of the Gulf crisis, which has divided the region for three months, the list of countries to be to be targeted for sales by officials of the Department for International Trade’s Defence and Security Organisation includes a string of Middle East states on the UK government’s own “human rights priority registers”.
Concern for human rights?
Bahrain, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have all been named priority arms export markets by the Department for International Trade despite being listed by the Foreign Office as a “human rights priority”.
#Armes #Royaume_uni #marchand_de_mort #golfe #donneurs_de_leçon
British wind farm first to secure MHI Vestas’ record 9.5 MW turbines
▻https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-windpower/british-wind-farm-first-to-secure-mhi-vestas-record-9-5-mw-turbines-idUK
A consortium planning to build Britain’s #Triton_Knoll offshore wind park will buy 90 giant turbines from MHI Vestas, it said on Monday, in what the maker said was the first announced deal for its record 9.5 megawatt (MW) capacity product.
A final investment decision for the wind park, in Britain’s North Sea, is likely in 2018 with full onshore construction starting shortly after, and offshore construction starting in 2020, it added.
The 9.5 MW turbine, made by a joint venture between Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Denmark’s Vestas, has the world’s largest capacity, designed to challenge an 8.0 megawatt turbine by Siemens Gamesa, the market leader in the growing offshore market.
vaste programme d’#archéologie_préventive pour la tranchée terrestre du cable de raccordement
Allen Archaeology Wins Triton Knoll Contract | Offshore Wind
▻http://www.offshorewind.biz/2017/06/13/allen-archaeology-wins-triton-knoll-contract
The contract, worth around GBP 500,000, will see Allen Archaeology carry out an approximate five months schedule of archaeological trial trenching works along the entire route of the project’s onshore cable corridor, starting later this month, including at the landfall location, the onshore substation and the Intermediate Electrical Compound sites.
UK Charts: NBA 2K18 tops PES as the biggest new game of the week
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-09-18-uk-charts-nba-2k18-tops-pes-as-the-biggest-new-game-of-the
Destiny 2 remains at No.1
The Forgotten Refugees: Survivors of the #Sabra and #Shatila Massacre
When Palestinian refugees were massacred in Beirut in 1982, Dr. Swee Chai Ang, a refugee living in the U.K., was working as a young volunteer medic in the camp. On the 35th anniversary, Ang describes her memories and unanswered questions.
#Israel qui a laissé entrer les milices chrétiennes dans le camps et les a laissé massacré tranquillement.
No VR for Star Wars Battlefront II but still “very important” for Criterion
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-09-15-no-vr-for-star-wars-battlefront-ii-but-still-very-importan
UK studio says Rogue One demo “informed” Starfighter Assault mode, but sequel will not support #Virtual_Reality
Record membership for Entertainment Retailers Association
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-09-15-record-membership-for-entertainment-retailers-association
Number of UK retailers signed up to trade body now 75% higher than 2008, the year Woolworths and Virgin closed
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry and the case for socialism - World Socialist Web Site
▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/15/gren-s15.html
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry and the case for socialism
By the Socialist Equality Party (UK)
15 September 2017
The official opening of the government-convened Grenfell Tower Inquiry is an affront to the victims and survivors of the terrible inferno that swept the 24-storey tower block in west London on June 14, killing at least 80 people.
In his 45-minute statement, Chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick spoke of remembering those who had suffered with “humility and compassion,” “dismay,” and “sadness.”
The cynicism of his remarks was made clear by his refusal to take questions from those in attendance. Just 200 places were available for those wanting to attend, and then on a “first come, first serve” basis. Moore-Bick stood immediately after he had finished speaking, turned his back on the audience and left the room, to cries of “rubbish.”