[NEWS] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bloomberg notes that cutting back on immigration would not boost a post-Brexit United Kingdom's living standards, reports on Uber's fight with taxi companies, and observes that the new president of the Philippines vows to continue his predecessor's economic policies.


• Bloomberg View argues China should want a Taiwan with a higher international profile.


• CBC notes the status of Dilma Rousseff's impeachment and reports on the discovery of a bacterium lacking mitochondria.


• MacLean's interviews Poland's president on everything from Ukraine to Second World War history wars.


• The National Post suggests the Arabian peninsula may have been a refugium for human beings during the last Ice Age and notes an American judge's condemnation of the Pentagon for not releasing torture photos.


• Wired reports on a coast-to-coast road trip, in the United States in a car, circa 1903.