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

Things I noticed this week (2nd May 2021)

The remote visa free island at the top of the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPbZZ1qIozk

AI is neither artificial or intelligent 

https://www.wired.com/story/researcher-says-ai-not-artificial-intelligent

My dad. the undercover policeman

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/26/my-dad-undercover-policeman-cop-clare-carson

UK aid cuts hit vital coronavirus research around the world

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/apr/30/uks-aid-cuts-hit-vital-coronavirus-research-around-world

A Bloody Stupid Idea: James Butler on Owen Hatherley’s “Red London”

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n09/james-butler/a-bloody-stupid-idea

Magnetar - Mark Lettieri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w13bgirKcg

39 Ways to Save the Planet

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qwt3

Proposed Changes to Judicial Review will make government ‘untouchable’ 

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/apr/30/judicial-review-changes-will-make-government-untouchable-warns-law-society

International Jazz Day Virtual Global Concert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3421WDpq7eM

Why are TV cameras still huge and expensive? 

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