generalpraxis

“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

Sunday, July 25, 2021

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

Sunday, July 18, 2021

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

Sunday, July 11, 2021

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

Sunday, July 04, 2021

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

Sunday, June 27, 2021

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

Sunday, June 20, 2021

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

Sunday, June 13, 2021

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

Sunday, June 06, 2021

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

Saturday, May 29, 2021

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