Saturday, March 13, 2021

Things I noticed this week (Sat 13 Mar 2021)

Chaos strikes global shipping

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/business/global-shipping.html


New EU ‘right to repair’ laws require technology to last at least a decade

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/eu-right-repair-technology-decade-b1809408.html


Farmers’ assembly on new GM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz_rDzQmI0A


An analysis of how brexit is going, 2 months in

https://beergbrexit.blog/2021/03/07/brexit-2-months-in/


Exodus of foreign workers a threat to UK recovery

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/07/exodus-of-foreign-workers-a-threat-to-uk-recovery


Percy Ingle closing is another blow in working class London’s fight against gentrification

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/percy-ingle-closing-down-bakery-working-class-london-gentrification-453325


The best cheap expresso setup (£250 budget)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1LUkfpTtu0


A really first class Beaujolais for under nine quid

https://www.thewinesociety.com/shop/ProductDetail.aspx?pd=BJ8491


My great PhD student Len Mccaffer’s short film of his project: “A Whirl Around the Gaiety” - all about the heritage of the Gaiety Theatre, Ayr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_4gSamDCWA


Yotto: a very cold DJ set, Lapland, Finland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMOgYpDIf5w