Saturday, May 08, 2021

Things I noticed this week (8th May 2021)


A prisoner’s perspective

https://www.newstatesman.com/Jacques-louis-david-view-from-luxembourg


Gunboats at the ready

https://westcountrybylines.co.uk/gunboats-at-the-ready/


The complexities of being heard in Kashmir

https://www.frieze.com/article/can-you-hear-my-voice-2021-review


Seven takeaways from Michel Barnier’s Brexit book

https://www.politico.eu/article/7-things-to-know-about-barniers-brexit-memoir/


Origins of Covid - following the clues

https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038


What You Should Know About Yair Lapid, The Man Just Tasked With Trying to Replace Netanyahu

https://yair.substack.com/p/what-you-should-know-about-yair-lapid


500 Windrush victims waiting over a year for compensation

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/windrush-scandal-compensation-victims-b1840175.html


BBC obituary programme for Harold Wilson, 1995

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


Ken Clarke in conversation with Peter Mandelson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB7FCc83spU


Talking Heads on the South Bank Show (1979)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5EzLDD1D_Q


Red beans and rice - southern U.S. style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOtE_mrV3SY


Peter Cook’s biased judge sketch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyos-M48B8U


Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56978344


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