Saturday, February 06, 2021

Things I noticed this week: w/e 6.02.21

The quiet collapse of Scottish Unionism (many thanks to Leigh French for this link)

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2021/01/quiet-collapse-scottish-unionism


 

Part of Highway 1 in California falls into the ocean

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/us/highway-one-mudslide.html



Proportions of households in the UK engaged in remote working by neighbourhood deprivation

(thanks to Julie Clark for this link - report on some interesting research by some economic geographers at Sheffield, Nottingham and Birmingham)

https://theconversation.com/five-charts-that-reveal-how-remote-working-could-change-the-uk-154418

[source:  https://ideas.repec.org/p/bir/birmec/20-31.html ]



Archaeologists unearth Bronze Age graves at Stonehenge site

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/04/archaeologist-unearth-bronze-age-graves-stonehenge-a303-tunnel-site



Spreadsheet Phil’s evidence to the 'UK in a Changing Europe' research study on Theresa May & Brexit

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-witness-archive/philip-hammond/


Best of the Handforth Parish Council Planning and Environment Committee Thursday 10th December

(Straight Outta Royston Vasey)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgGmYeAm0jk


Jackie Weaver reveals all about ‘that’ Zoom meeting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9USwd909Zg


Name My Think Tank

https://namemythinktank.org


A Lacanian interpretation of Boots Riley’s ’Sorry to Bother You’

http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2018/12/13/dear-boots-thank-you-for-bothering-us/



A ride in a train cab from Utrecht to Den Haag on a frosty morning in the Netherlands







Solo in Estonia’s East





The lost river of Walthamstow





Theo Bleckmann and The Westerlies: Another holiday





Ben Sheen performs Gaston Lataize’s Epiphanie on the organ of Christ Church, Oxford




Recipe: The ultimate stewed red kidney beans, Caribbean style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFMuDKSfFQU





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