Things I noticed this week, 7th Nov 2021

These Climate Science Deniers are attending the COP26 climate summit

https://www.desmog.com/2021/11/03/heartland-cfact-cei-gwpf-climate-science-deniers-are-attending-the-cop26-climate-summit/

You want to see a modern country commit suicide? Take a hard look at Britain

https://eand.co/want-to-see-a-modern-country-commit-suicide-take-a-hard-look-at-britain-fdeb3ad4bd3c

Foreign Office secretly targeted British news outlets

https://www.thecanary.co/investigations/2021/11/03/exclusive-foreign-office-secretly-targeted-leading-british-news-outlets/

Mark Zuckerberg and Nick Clegg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWqa70DvD3s

Peter Millray - Time Machine (1976)

https://youtu.be/lHAXax4BDdUI

A castle for sale in North Ayrshire: probably some of the cheapest property (per square foot/acre) available in the UK...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/81354984#/

David Lammy: the Tories think rules are for little people, not them

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/06/the-tories-reveal-yet-again-their-belief-that-the-rules-are-for-little-people-not-for-them

Transparency over emissions remains a sticking point at COP 26

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/06/transparency-over-emissions-remains-a-sticking-point-at-cop26

The Ahr Valley Flood

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1gy6

The Filmmakers’ Hut, Salo, Finland

https://www.dezeen.com/2021/11/06/the-filmmakers-hut-pirinen-salo-finland/

Ibrahim Maalouf - Live in Istanbul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le-e37ZMck8

A Ramen Cart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqCz5u4U9M4

November mushroom foraging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7AN7j_STeE

Things I noticed this week, 30th October 2021

Hey Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 years ago: it was terrible then, and it’s terrible now https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/facebook-metaverse-was-always-terrible/620546/

Brexit chaos: the crisis that shouldn’t be

https://www-blaetter-de.translate.goog/ausgabe/2021/november/brexit-chaos-die-krise-die-keine-sein-darf?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui#_ftn1

‘We’ve been hammered’: on the breadline in Burnley

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/24/weve-been-hammered-on-the-breadline-in-burnley-covid-universal-credit

The BAM: Russia’s Unknown Trans-Siberian Train

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2d7kJPimyE

Glasgow imagines its post-covid future

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-28/glasgow-imagines-its-future-after-covid-and-cop26

Hey Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 years ago: it was terrible then, and it’s terrible now 

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/facebook-metaverse-was-always-terrible/620546/

An Energy System Fit for the Future? a report on the ownership structure of the Big Six energy companies

https://www.common-wealth.co.uk/reports/power-ahead-an-energy-system-fit-for-the-future

Russia strengthens its internet censorship powers     https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/technology/russia-internet-censorship-putin.html

Parliamentary Committee on Standards: Mr Owen Paterson

https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/7644/documents/79907/default/

An overlooked London walk - Erith to Dartford Creek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhOD5-lzc2s

Dreamlands: stories of enchantment and excess in a search for lost sensations

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14744740211053613#.YXkXaN98j60.twitter

End of the Line for Uber? Accounting tricks and tech gimmickry… |

https://marker.medium.com/end-of-the-line-for-uber-901e3077bbbc

Things I noticed this week (23rd October 2021)

La Petite Histoire du RER A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irwgiTt3V48

Iran Mall - the world’s largest mall, in Tehran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTpSC-i4N74

List of MPs who voted to allow water companies to continue to dump raw sewage into rivers & the sea

https://evolvepolitics.com/heres-a-list-of-every-mp-who-just-voted-to-allow-water-companies-to-continue-dumping-raw-sewage-in-our-rivers/

David Puttnam leaves the House of Lords

https://www.davidputtnam.com/viewNews/n/lord-puttnam-retirement-full-speech/

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp0YeVAfwNQ

Who is Sajid Javid? 

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2019/07/25/who-is-sajid-javid-an-everyday-tale-of-hedge-funds-and-financial-intrigue/

Frank Zappa: Son of Orange County & More Trouble Every Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa1JR-TgPfU

Things I noticed this week, 16th October 2021

Lynsey Hanley: a home of our own: the story of Clough Close, Middlesbrough

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010gxz

Performing Shakespeare in GTA V Online (thanks to Henry Bell for the link)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54sCXRvP3Y0

Just 20 visas issued to foreign lorry drivers, government admits

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/13/just-20-uk-visas-issued-to-foreign-lorry-drivers-government-admits

UK rail firms move to shed thousands of jobs

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/13/uk-rail-firms-move-to-shed-thousands-of-jobs-amid-covid-cost-cuts

Film: Banksters

https://vimeo.com/542074145

Salt and Pepper Pork Chops

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

Vinnie Colaiuta, Herbie Hancock, Marcus Miller, Joni Mitchell - Los Angeles, California, 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKbol2dsBjQ

Things I noticed this week, 10th October 2021

‘Sorry to Bother You’ and the psychological toll of modern capitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd6xe5w-6Kw

The Brexit three card Monte 

https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-brexit-three-card-monte.html

A walk to the most dangerous path in Britain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKtzuW6iUrk

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie (All-Star Ensemble)

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

Tomates Farci: Stuffed Tomatoes

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

Things I noticed this week, 3rd Oct 2021

Ian Carr and Nucleus: Roots (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBRKnvK1JUE

Diversity Conservatism and Sociable Sociology

https://discoversociety.org/2021/09/20/diversity-conservatism-and-sociable-sociology/

Jim Duignan and the Stockyard Institute, Chicago

https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/when-art-and-life-are-intertwined/

Mark Blyth: Why people vote for those who work against their best interests

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsqGITb0W4A

Steve Reich at 85

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001074z

The Roland Jupiter 4

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

Get Your Love Through the Radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffuakz4XNd8

Jeremy Strong on acting in Succession

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/02/rage-pain-shame-all-mine-jeremy-strong-succession-kendall-roy

The Original Hot and Sour Soup, Wuxi style

https://youtu.be/Pts0cLqGfkQ

TINTW 27 Sept 2021

Chancellor Denis Healey and union leaders interviewed during the 'Winter of Discontent,' 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksJeJp6aOJk

GB News is just a disaster. I came close to a breakdown: ANDREW NEIL | Daily Mail Online

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10026417/GB-News-just-disaster-came-close-breakdown-ANDREW-NEIL.html

Inside Music with Rhiannon Giddens

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001018q

The ARP 2600 Turns 50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvIekWsTWH8

A visit to Real World Studios

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1YYbaLQN0Y

Johnny Harris Orchestra: Footprints on the Moon (1969)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sehXutM623A

Kollectiv: Kollectiv (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4YXHLIh6mo

Six Thai Dinners you can make at home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kB3sfLM29Y

TINTW 19 Sept 2021

Why internet connections in Germany are so bad

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

One of America's Best Sommeliers Grades Boxed Wine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9XxVXczyzI

Three-decade-old Floating Head sculpture revived in Glasgow

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/12/three-decade-old-floating-head-sculpture-revived-glasgow

Real time global COVID statistics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSDuco7vUnc

Fact Check: Are Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Testicles Gigantic Because Of The COVID Vaccine?

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fact-check-are-nicki-minajs-cousins-friends-testicles-gigantic-because-of-the-covid-vaccine/

A simple chow mein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H63M4UkRtA

an intriguing cover version of the Sweeney! movie theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ykda6RIWgE

TINTW 11th September 2021

20 Years after 9/11, the Twin Towers are everywhere

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-10/mapping-the-second-life-of-the-world-trade-center

September 11 attacked: Jon Snow remembers 9/11, 20 years on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClPis-dMEEM

The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voyage-satoshi-cryptocurrency-cruise-ship-seassteading

Fishing on the Russia - China border

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EonfMc9hoqQ

Deja vu: John Smith criticises Tory U-turn on National Insurance (June 1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwu0Zc0vxs8

The secret life of a Michelin Guide inspector

https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlaalindahao/2019/10/23/the-secret-life-of-an-anonymous-michelin-restaurant-inspector-2019/

The UWS Arts and Media digital showcase 2021

http://uwsartsandmedia.com

Pat Metheny: First Circle - with the metropole orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97aLLHz14CQ

The UK Government has snubbed the legal commitment to achieve net zero by 2050

https://goodlawproject.org/update/government-legal-commitment/

Escoffier's poulet sauté Alice : minimum effort maximum joy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6vs2HkMt6o

TINTW 5th September 2021

Scotland to trial a four day working week

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-58403087

The private-state school funding gap in England

https://www.common-wealth.co.uk/reports/why-are-some-children-worth-more-than-others

Inside the real Casa Bonita from South Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6k26GDq9_0

Trey Parker and Matt Stone buy Casa Bonita

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

Skanking with the Upsetter: Rare Dubs 1971 - 1974

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hVwwH8TDco

Arrivals at Heathrow, 3rd Sept 2021

https://news.sky.com/story/kids-screaming-and-men-fainting-passengers-complain-of-five-hour-lines-after-arriving-at-heathrow-12398905

Night Mail 2 - documentary, 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzrrcfV-UWw

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three - soundtrack (David Shire, 1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84e64g1ZMw

The UK’s last aerial ropeway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RiYXI1Tfu4

Lousiana style red beans and rice recipe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxKqeC_6aBk

TINTW 29 August 2021

 

Brexit closes major car plant, employees regret voting Leave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aw3omZOZs0

Former British soldier on the official Afghanistan narrative

https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2021/august/24/former-british-soldier-destroys-official-afghanistan-narrative

Dark Side of the Moon: Wembley 1974

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6tYeg5Bj4g

Bach organ music on the 2021 Kogler Organ, Soumenlinna Church, in Helsinki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3HvoLV3xZs

Hifi shop sketch from Not the Nine O’Clock News

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

A railway journey from Oslo to Lillehammer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts_e2EyHU4I

Inside Lung King Been: The First Chinese restaurant to receive three Michelin stars

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

Niklas Ekstedt: The Fire Chef

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

TINTW 22 August 2021

An interview with Pat Metheny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEgalcH_-b4

Afghanistan before the Russian invasion (1979)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHPrU7R8L2Y

Vegetarian Pad Thai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy_P70hXhdM

Living with brexit

https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/living-with-brexit.html

The very modest engineering genius Roy Gandy at Rega Research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAM0itnCUac

Muddy Waters live in Chicago 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRex0LHuRyA

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6IMaFB_l1g

TINTW 14 August 2021

A house in the garden: shofuso and modernism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba2drsok3EM

"Forward to first principles" (1966)

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

Is your Uber more expensive than a London taxi?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Ypt4E2YQY

Hush-Hush Boom-Boom: Spymasters

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n16/charles-glass/hush-hush-boom-boom

Latest U.K. Scandals Show a System Rife With Insider Ties

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/world/europe/uk-boris-johnson-cameron.html

Tuna sashimi with daikon and ginger

https://www.thespruceeats.com/tuna-sashimi-with-daikon-and-ginger-1300697

Cold War Cuisine: notes from the CCCP cookbook

https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/4745/soviet-food-stories-cold-war-cuisine-cccp-cookbook

Herb Ellis and  Remo Palmier: Windflower (1978)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAi7IeJG-6Y

Nucleus: Alleycat (1975)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giYvwLM-JEo

 

TINTW 8 August 2021

 

Affordable housing residents at ‘Sky Pool’ development locked out of basic facilities
https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/affordable-housing-residents-at-sky-pool-development-locked-out-of-basic-facilities-71927

Interview with the cast of 'Succession' (2018)
www.gq.com/story/hbo-succession-cast-breakout-interview-2018/amp

Does London really need a gigantic glowing orb the height of Big Ben?
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/aug/02/msg-sphere-stratford-london-orb-madison-square-gardens

'Wiping the ice cream off your face: an artistic dialogue on de-arctification

https://www.raekalliodelval.com/wiping-the-ice-cream-off-your-face.html

'The Flash' filming in Glasgow: takes, stunts and more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEQBRy6zA1E

The end of a depressing 1970s sci-fi movie starring a guy in a turtleneck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49IcrH4Bhq0

The soundtrack to Sim City 4 (2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqlCKE5W-CA

...and the soundtrack to Sim City 3000

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

Travelling the trans-Siberian railway in 3rd class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZl-icu3NV4

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