[NEWS] Seven links, from British politics to minimum wages to the dead to non-robotic future

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• The Independent notes a denial that Scotland's Conservatives will split from the national party. I wonder, thought, if Scotland's political spectrum is going to shift, like Québec's, from a left-right split to a separatist-unionist one?
  
• Owen Jones argues in The Guardian that the rampant prejudices of the DUP, including its homophobia, make it an unsuitable coalition partner.


• Andray Domise argues in MacLean's that a perceived need to fit in means that immigrants can be too ready to dismiss local racisms.


• Fast Company lets us know that the minimum wage increases in Seattle have not led to higher retail prices.


• CBC notes the death of Sam Panopoulous, the Canadian man who invented Hawaiian pizza.


• Adam West, the first man to play Batman on the screen, has died. We all, not just the fandom, are the poorer for his passing.


• Are the robots not poised to take over our world? What does their absence demonstrate about our underachieving economy? The Atlantic wonders.