TINTW 31st July 2021

Guy Maddin: The Green Fog

https://vimeo.com/356966508

“The Green Fog pays homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, by creating a “parallel-universe version” of the classic film from unrelated footage from ‘50s noir, experimental films, ‘70s prime-time TV, and amateur video that were all shot around the San Francisco Bay Area”.

Del Singh’s memoir: a Peterborough story

https://www.latenightbanter.com/show-host

Queen secretly lobbied Scottish ministers for climate law exemption

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/28/queen-secretly-lobbied-scottish-ministers-climate-law-exemption

Welsh slate landscape becomes UK's newest world heritage site

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/28/welsh-slate-landscape-becomes-uks-newest-world-heritage-site

Sophie Zhang, the data scientist who exposed political manipulation via Facebook

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/29/1030260/facebook-whistleblower-sophie-zhang-global-political-manipulation/

Napa natural wine club whose 'cult-like' job went viral is even more eccentric than it sounds

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/Napa-natural-wine-club-whose-cult-like-job-went-16350613.php

70s strings from Italy - the Crumar multiman - S

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKaPJ2ZwGqI

Sadao Watanabe: Autumn Blow (1977)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppGU2VGlZXw 

TINTW 25th July 2021

How my grandmother taught me to cook - on Whats App

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/jul/18/how-my-grandmother-taught-me-to-cook-on-whatsapp

New York air quality plunges as haze from western wildfires shrouds city 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/21/new-york-air-quality-plunges-smoke-west-coast-wildfires

Peppa Pig, a pandemic favourite, has American children acting British

https://www.wsj.com/articles/peppa-pig-a-pandemic-favorite-has-american-children-acting-british-11626627266?

How to season a wok

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

After Covid, the climate crisis will be the next thing the right says we ‘just have to live with’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/22/covid-climate-crisis-politics-individualism

Spectating or doing: the challenge for the UK’s ruling clique

https://www.geoffmulgan.com/post/spectators-v-doers-the-challenge-for-the-uk-s-ruling-clique

Stonehenge may be next UK site to lose UNESCO world heritage status

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/23/stonehenge-may-be-next-uk-site-to-lose-world-heritage-statu

A brilliant Twitter account to follow

https://twitter.com/RiderGlasgow

Learning to groove on keyboards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLQ1jSKEMeE

TINTW 18 July 2021

Sicko UK: how the tories are quietly privatising the NHS

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/07/14/sicko-uk/

The politics of lies: Boris Johnson and the quiet erosion of the rule of law

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2021/07/politics-lies-boris-johnson-and-erosion-rule-law

BMW and VW fined £750m  by EU over emissions collusion

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bmw-volkswagen-emissions-eu-nitrogen-b1880506.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-08/volkswagen-bmw-fined-1-billion-by-eu-for-emissions-collusion

Get Carter at 50: How the Tyneside locations look today (many thanks to Nick Triplow for the link)

https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/get-carter-newcastle-tyneside-locations

Schrodinger’s cab firm: Uber’s existential crisis (from 2019)

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2019/schrodingers-cab-firm-ubers-existential-crisis/

The climate crisis haunts Chicago’s future

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/07/07/climate/chicago-river-lake-michigan.html

How to play funk clav

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

An extraordinary carrot cake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ16lcfrLuA

Things I noticed this week (11 July 2021)

Donald Rumsfeld: a fog of memos

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/03/opinion/errol-morris-donald-rumsfeld.html?

Little Amal, the puppet girl refugee about to walk 8000km
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/jul/04/meet-little-amal-the-puppet-girl-refugee-about-to-walk-8000km
and also https://www.walkwithamal.org

If working from home becomes the norm, housing inequality will deepen
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/06/working-from-home-uk-inequality-housing-income

It was all a dream, by Raheem Sterling
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/raheem-sterling-england-it-was-all-a-dream

John Bruton: UK ministers need to read the NI protocol they signed
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/john-bruton-uk-ministers-need-to-read-the-ni-protocol-they-signed-1.4613290

Ian Wright’s teacher gave him direction and purpose during his turbulent upbringing - BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6caCqn_nD6o

Fighting back against the age of manufactured ignorance: resistance is still possible
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/03/fighting-back-against-the-age-of-manufactured-ignorance-resistance-is-still-possible/

Southern Water in court for polluting coastlines with raw sewage
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2021-07-06/southern-water-in-court-for-polluting-kent-and-sussex-coastlines-with-raw-sewage

Oliver Sacks on the healing power of gardens
https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/27/oliver-sacks-gardens/

Standing only soba restaurant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRrbuQ0-0iY&feature=youtu.be

Photography in public: UK laws and your rights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raX9Rr29O2c

Hainese chicken rice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V98Ou9imgTI

Things I noticed this week (4 July 2021)

Confessions of a Clintonworld Exile

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/confessions-of-a-clintonworld-exile

Lebanon’s economic crisis amongst world’s worst in 150 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-vB3WlAk2c

Flying sports car’s first flight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTaEgwavL4A

London just got a data deal from the EU. Boris Johnson could scrap it.

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-eu-data-deal-boris-johnson-revision

Art Deco Mumbai

https://www.artdecomumbai.com

That Scene in a Christopher Nolan Film when you give up trying to follow the story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2FXfFeRtJo

RIP Lauren Berlant: Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/25/affect-theory-and-the-new-age-of-anxiety

Bad Influencer: The Great Insta-Con

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09ln51v/bad-influencer-the-great-insta-con

A walk in Denen-Chofu in Tokyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gtiwxNq_YQ

Clay pot chicken and mushroom rice

https://youtu.be/enHXFTVUBe0

Jacques Pepin’s famous omelette techniques

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1XoCQm5JSQ

Recorder: the Marion Stokes Project (currently available to stream on mubi.com)

https://recorderfilm.com

Yotto - DJ set at Bengtskar Lighthouse, Finland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DH0DXqv5WQ

Things I noticed this week (27 Jun 2021)

Rick Bayless guacamole class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUz3wG0Wzws

What is freedom? with Judith Butler

https://vimeo.com/564720079

The $11bln tunnel connecting Scandinavia to the Mediterranean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30foJiPUrBA

Brexit: how travel to the EU has changed

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/travel-after-brexit-eu-passport-b1773142.html

Career opportunities

https://brexitrage.com/career-opportunities/

West Coast Main Line record breaking attempt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfg_aHpilO8

How to make Fesenjān (Fesenjoon) - A regal Iranian Pomegranate and Walnut stew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwKpEnqh_88

Simple Szechuan Flash Fried Cabbage Recipe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2MDU48eh3o

Paisley walking tour promotes town’s radical history

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/renfrewshire/paisley-walking-tour-promotes-towns-24390689

Contractor informs Biden it’d be cheaper just to tear down U.S. and start over

https://www.theonion.com/contractor-informs-biden-it-d-be-cheaper-to-just-tear-d-1847165691

Things I noticed this week (20 Jun 2021)

The health benefits of coffee

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/well/eat/coffee-health-benefits.html

Democrats can keep the House in 2022

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/05/10/democrats-can-keep-the-house-in-2022-really/

How London’s trees are saving the capital billions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-09/how-london-s-trees-help-boost-the-local-economy

70% of cross-border TV channels now fall under the AVMSD jurisdiction of The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Spain

https://www.obs.coe.int/en/web/observatoire/home/-/asset_publisher/wy5m8bRgOygg/content/les-grandes-tendances-du-secteur-audiovisuel-europeen-tous-les-chiffres-cles-pour-imaginer-le-monde-post-covid-?inheritRedirect=false&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.obs.coe.int%2Fen%2Fweb%2Fobservatoire%2Fhome%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_wy5m8bRgOygg%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D4

Brexit deals devastate UK farmers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-fVv6QncNo

Classic Thai mussels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgyUi5bAx_I

A short history of the best bad Top of the Pops performances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX3yHAMldXI

Making a 90s club smash with the Roland JD-800 expansion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KswY7ckcw5o

Things I noticed this week (13 June 2021)

Joshua Corey on the enduring appeal of Jim Rockford

http://www.joshua-corey.com/blog/2019/6/21/this-is-jim-rockford

Judge slams Michael Gove’s office as openDemocracy wins transparency court case

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/freedom-of-information/foi-clearing-house-michael-gove-cabinet-office-opendemocracy-wins-court-case-uk-government/

Massachusetts launches ‘Vax Express’ — a rolling vaccination train that targets hard-hit communities

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/12/nation/massachusetts-launches-vax-express-rolling-vaccination-train-that-targets-hard-hit-communities/

Shell and Hitler

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/calls-for-shell-to-apologise-for-fuelling-nazi-war-machine/

Keep an eye on what’s happening in the red states

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/06/republican-state-legislatures-changes/619086/

Lake Mead: largest US reservoir drops to record low

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57436860

Renzo Martens: From 'Enjoy Poverty' to 'White Cube'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAIZ-nAwA2M

Lasagna in an Emilian Michelin restaurant with Massimo Spigaroli - Antica Corte Pallavicina*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXZq6crD6WI

Things I noticed this week (5th June 2021)

18 million trees to be planted around Glasgow

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-57315467

The southwest US’s climate peril

https://www.axios.com/climate-southwest-drought-wildfires-e0e0132c-c3d8-4872-b623-280f30383155.html

California assault weapon ban overturned, with an eye to the Supreme Court

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/us/assault-weapons-ban-california.html

Tove Jansson, the island of Klovharun, and Walthamstow

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/05/tove-jansson-moomins-woman-fell-in-love-with-an-island-summer-book

Turbot with lobster béarnaise sauce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAw2_gF3YKI

Inside one of the last bohemian homes at the Chelsea Hotel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF3nQWSnE2Q

60s and 70s Japanese instrumental Cinema Funk beats and breaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA9LVzuC7z4

Grupo Medusa: Grupo Medusa (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfMEV-qIYpc

The organist goes off the traditional path

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LR-H2OdfoA

Things I noticed this week (29th May 2021)

BBC Radio 4: Piccadilly

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w9ty

Death in the Himalayas

https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/death-in-the-himalayas-poverty-fear-stretched-resources-propel-indias-covid-crisis

Finland: new standards

https://newstandards.info/

Port in a storm - no end to global shipping chaos

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/Port-in-a-storm-No-end-in-sight-to-global-shipping-chaos

Estuary Festival - live and online 23rd May - 13 June

https://www.estuaryfestival.com

The mystery of magic’s greatest card trick

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/style/berglas-effect-card-trick.html

Patel, Mirza and the middlemen

https://goodlawproject.org/patel-mirza-and-the-middlemen/

Luttrell Live from Arjunadeep x Printworks London 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I4E80yC7A0

Caesar Salad

https://www.withlovepaperandwine.com/food/original-ceasars-salad-tijuana-casears-restaurant-bar

Things I noticed this week (23rd May 2021)

Johnson as Disraeli

https://davidallengreen.com/2021/05/boris-johnson-is-not-like-winston-churchill-he-is-far-more-like-benjamin-disraeli-and-this-should-worry-liberals-and-progressives/

Bill Gates/Questionable Behaviour

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-epstein.html

Piero Umiliani - To-Day’s Sound, 1973

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGUUfKoGQc4&t=21s

Native Oysters reintroduced into Firth of Clyde

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-57100258

Glimpses of a deserted Soviet Mining Town, preserved in the High Arctic

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/travel/pyramiden-svalbard-mining-town.html

Brexit witness archive: Alistair Campbell

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-witness-archive/alastair-campbell/

World’s biggest iceberg breaks off in Anrarcica as glaciers retreat

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-19/world-s-largest-iceberg-breaks-off-in-antarctica-as-glaciers-retreat

Unattended ambient music - ‘Snow Drift’ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THM4fUdz8Mc

Recipe: Cabbage Rolls - Polish Golabki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ckKeuH9j9A

Things I noticed this week (16 May 2021)

The Rise and Fall of America’s Malls

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

Bunzl: yet another lobbying scandal

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/bunzl-lobbying-scandal/

‘We won’t be bouncing back’ – the unsettling truth about the big reopening

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/12/bouncing-back-unsettling-truth-big-reopening

Trading up: one woman’s quest to swap a hairpin for a house

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/12/demi-skipper-bobby-pin-trade-house

Scotland: a future outside of the United Kingdom? DW Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-fUi8UX_Hs

Greensill: a tale of hubris, hype and greed | FT Film

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

The secret of Dave’s success

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-secret-of-daves-success/

Dark Money Group Brags About Writing GOP Voter Suppression Bills Across the Country

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/heritage-foundation-dark-money-voter-suppression-laws/

Reading Edmund Burke

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/edmund-burke-conservatism-tradition-hierarchy

'Shocking and Horrifying': Israel destroys AP office in Gaza

https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-fe452147166f55ba5a9d32e6ba8b53d7

Ful Medames - Fava Beans three delicious ways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8eMVqyR1l0

Shinichi Atobe - Butterfly Effect (Full Album)

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

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

Things I noticed this week (24 April 2021)

The people are not an image: a conversation on vernacular video 

https://networkcultures.org/blog/2021/04/07/being-human-in-community-across-distance-1-3/

Japan scraps mascot promoting Fukushima wastewater dump

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/15/japan-scraps-mascot-promoting-fukushima-wastewater-dump

Covid deniers’ event leaves host dead, 12 infected

https://www.newsweek.com/covid-19-deniers-event-leaves-host-dead-12-infected-1583553

Survey on the impact of the pandemic on the cultural learning workforce

https://culturallearningalliance.org.uk/cultural-learning-workforce-survey-april-2021/

40% fall in EU applications to study in the UK

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20210414141653480

Kimberly Chong – Management consulting, the UK’s pandemic response, and the ethical basis of expertise

http://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/2020/12/15/kimberly-chongs-public-lecture/

RCA Vice-Chancellors’ Talk: Peter Gabriel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGgWWU9p638

Oxford malaria vaccine proves highly effective in Burkina Faso trial

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/23/oxford-malaria-vaccine-proves-highly-effective-in-burkina-faso-trial

International launch of the UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Educators and Learners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EuHe2BaYrI

Voting with their money: Brexit and outward investment by UK firms

https://personal.lse.ac.uk/sampsont/OutwardFDI_AP.pdf

Count Binface: Hip to be Mayor

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

Niklas Ekstedt's roast chicken with yogurt & salad

https://www.ft.com/content/8fa4f1a6-998f-11ea-8b5b-63f7c5c86bef

Things I noticed this week (17 April 2021)

The U.S.-Mexico border is not a line on the ground, but a network diagram drawn through bodies and databases.

https://placesjournal.org/article/survey-to-surveillance/?cn-reloaded=1

Dodgy Dave - Cameron and the Greensill Scandal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH6cRkRgaFI

Who is Lex Greensill?

https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/lex-greensill-billionaire-banker-tied-to-gam-tim-haywood-20190507

My Brothe: an email funk opera

pic.twitter.com/xttu6fJ31o

Donald Trump is drowning in criminal investigations and legally screwed

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/donald-trump-legally-screwed

Facebook pledged to suspend political donations, then quietly funneled $50,000 to GOP group pushing voter suppression laws

https://popular.info/p/facebook-pledged-to-suspend-political

‘State Fair’ lemonade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YYF9vBLzGU

Things I noticed this week (10 April 2021)

The impact and fallout of the UK Government’s massive cuts to research funding https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000tnqy

The lives of the super rich in Central Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaPLylJk89w

How Trump Steered Supporters into Unwitting Donations

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/politics/trump-donations.html

Food: French stuffed tomatoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzCaY5vy0Sk

How to cook salt and pepper calamari Chinese style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC3mbx8HDMs

Drink: Five modern takes on the Reverse Manhattan

https://www.liquor.com/slideshows/reverse-manhattan/ 

Music: Lokkhi Terra Lockdown Session at Ronnie Scott's

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

Music: Benefits - Flag (thanks to Colin Clark for the link)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTsJjKqTR3Y