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

Things I noticed this week (3 April 2021)

The story of Casa Larronde on Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu

https://athomeinhollywood.com/2015/09/25/13-million-malibu-tear-down/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-05-cl-33485-story.html

https://www.cathiemessina.com/Los-Angeles-Real-Estate/sales/0423659

Climate change may have driven the emergence of SARS-CoV-2

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/climate-change-may-have-driven-the-emergence-of-sars-cov-2

In Southampton, a beach house not like the others

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/22/t-magazine/southampton-beach-house-design.html

Joint statement in response to the Sewell report from UCU, EIS, GMB, NEU, NUS, NASUWT

https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/11450/joint_response_to_sewell_report/pdf/jointresponsetosewellreport

Achegos Capital Blowup: Bill Hwang’s Margin Call

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t4lGmNDiHo

David Mach RA Unveils 100 Mile Scottish Border Wall Project

https://www.artlyst.com/news/david-mach-ra-unveils-100-mile-scottish-border-wall-project/

Open Letter on the £120m (49%) shortfall in UKRI ODA funding for 2021 - 22

https://reverseodacuts.wordpress.com

The Coffeelink Spring Sale - 25% off everything, and their coffees are excellent

https://coffeelink.com

Caesar’s legendary salad and restaurant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXtydu5bZAs

Joris Voorn Vinyl DJ Mix - Techno Pt 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9bJ260WTl8

Insight - the Mike Mainieri Quartet (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMGSGzl5Gfs

Things I noticed this week (27 Mar 2021)

Mapping the lost rainforests of England

https://lostrainforestsofengland.org/2021/03/16/mapping-the-lost-rainforests-of-england/

The COVID decade: understanding the long-term societal impacts of Covid-19

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/covid-decade-understanding-the-long-term-societal-impacts-of-covid-19/

Inside the First Inter-City 125

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeD_2-PVVKg

Dolphins off the coastline of South Ayrshire 

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/dolphins-put-stunning-show-ayrshire-23762262

The Johnson Dossier: every one of the 200,000+ words that Boris Johnson said during the EU referendum campaign

https://johnsondossier.com

Tackling financial vulnerability in the UK: a data tool for policymakers

https://apps.urban.org/features/uk-financial-vulnerability-index/

A train journey from NYC to Pittsburgh

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

Charlotte de Witte at Kompass Gent 2020 (Lockdown Session)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJPBoKpu50I

Thelonious Monk group live in Amiens 1966

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUHVD36f-z8

Floyd's American Pie - Episode 2, Florida

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VobmEeI93I

Things I noticed this week (20 Mar 2021)

How a British gardening show got people through the pandemic 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/realestate/gardening-monty-don-pandemic.html

Opening of an exhibition of paintings by Tove Jansson and contemporaries at the Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv2yDQB7

Brexit: why has trade with Germany fallen so dramatically? 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56347096

Rescuing an Off Off Broadway theatre with a storied past

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/realestate/streetscapes-greenwich-village.html

‘Tommy Robinson’ misused donations from far-right supporters, claim former allies

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tommy-robinson-cocaine-donations-prison-b1787467.html

GCRF cuts and broken promises: a first look at ‘Global Britain’

https://www.heatherflowe.com/post/grcf-cuts-and-broken-promises

A walk around Canning Town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLNxGJI4Ic0

‘Alternatives to gentrification’ in France

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/03/frances-alternative-to-gentrification

Super speed fried rice cooling by Shibuya’s most famous fried rice chef, Mr Murakami

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

How to stir-fry any vegetable - three basic flavours and recipes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Yu8qOAEYQ

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

Things I noticed this week (week ending 6 March 2021)

Democrats’ only chance to stop the GOP assault on voting rights

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/03/democrats-need-hr-1-and-new-vra-protect-voting-rights/618171/

'Poor floors’: anger over new plans to segregate tower block residents

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/27/poor-floors-anger-over-new-plans-to-segregate-tower-block-residents

Two thirds of New York City’s arts and culture jobs are gone

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-24/two-thirds-of-new-york-city-s-arts-and-culture-jobs-are-gone

The healing benefits of a Himalayan salt bath

https://roquesoneil.com/blogs/precious-oils-and-minerals

The rich versus the very, very rich

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/mar/02/wentworth-golf-club-reignwood-yan-bin

Dark and plain weird stuff from the world of stock photography

www.twitter.com/darkstockphotos

How to make Swabian Maltaschen (Schwäbisch Maultaschen)

https://monkey47.com/natural-habitat/maultaschen

The Jones Girls: Nights over Egypt (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw6u9ax2HGE

Zia Mohiuddin Dagar - Dhrupad - Raga Yaman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5trNs7M3MU

 

Things I noticed this week (week ending 27th Feb 2021)

What terminal lucidity teaches us about life, death and dementia https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/23/the-clouds-cleared-what-terminal-lucidity-teaches-us-about-life-death-and-dementia

Why the world is short of semiconductors, and why it matters

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-17/the-world-is-short-of-computer-chips-here-s-why-quicktake

China and the fate of Taiwan

https://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2021/02/16/china-and-the-fate-of-taiwan/

Johnson’s Downing Street, current state of play

https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2021/02/johnsons-downing-street-like-an-unstable-middle-eastern-autocracy-with-jihadis-family-militias-and-outside-actors-exchanging-fire.html

Labour’s damning silence on Brexit

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/labour-s-damning-silence-on-brexit

I Miss My Bar - recreate your favourite bar’s atmosphere

https://imissmybar.com

Save Pollocks' Toy Museum

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/savepollockstoymuseum

Music: Drive - featuring Marcus Strickland - Christian Sands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS3-CKqwpZU

Gornergrat Bahn (The Matterhorn Railway)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMSq_ldQ16k

How to make the perfect Italian tomato sauce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctRo3pmFaKQ

A really good Picpoul de Pinet for just over a tenner

https://josephbarneswines.com/products/chateau-de-la-mirande-picpoul-de-pinet-2019

Things I noticed this week (w/ending 20 Feb 2021)

How to support the resistance against the military coup in Myanmar

https://www.isupportmyanmar.com

The end of the world in Wembley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3-175BR1VI

The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City is exploded

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/nyregion/atlantic-city-trump-plaza-implosion.html

Jacinda Ardern is Not Your Friend (thanks to Remco de Blaijj for this link)

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-labour-prime-minister?

Roger Deakins and Steven Soderbergh on ‘Chinatown’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqblVWWvY-A

'He was the Steve Jobs of audio': how Rupert Neve changed the sound of music

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/15/he-was-the-steve-jobs-of-audio-how-rupert-neve-changed-the-sound-of-music-recording

Latest covid lockdown ends work for 700,000 freelancers

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/14/latest-covid-lockdown-ends-work-for-700000-uk-freelancers

Philippe Jourrousky sings Handel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ui6dtITSGc

A trip around a garden railway in the Stockholm archepelago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6tV_ec-OF8

A 200kg biriyani cooked in a north Indian village

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S7oWHGNWXY

Things I noticed this week (w/ending 13.02.21)

Douglas Corrance's photographs of Glasgow in the 1970s and 1980s

Mike Seaborne's photographs of London Docklands in the 1980s and 1990s

BBC Newsnight report on child poverty in the UK:

UK towns with more immigrants do much better economically, study finds

Strong link between diversity and prosperity

How mac n cheese was baked into American culture

Mark Steel: Does anyone know if the Labour Party is still going? 

A steam locomotive, completely restored, returns to service on the Ffestiniog Railway

Seckou Keita: Mande (from the  album 22 Cordes, 2015)

Chick Corea, R.I.P.  - Now he beats the drum, now he stops (1968)

A fancy stuffed cabbage recipe

A walk around snowy communal gardens in Södermalm, Stockholm

Film: Cathy Yan's 'Dead Pigs' - smart, funny and sharp commentary on family life in contemporary China

Now streaming on MUBI

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