The Guardian, Inside the tomb of tomes: “The warehouse is extraordinary because, unlike all those monstrous Tesco and Amazon depositories that litter the fringes of the motorways of the Midlands, it is being meticulously constructed to house things that no one wants. When it is complete next year, this warehouse will be state-of-the-art, containing 262 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'uk'
Architecture of paranoia
November 19th, 2007
Stephen Bayley, Architecture of paranoia: “Talk about handing an aesthetic victory to the bad guys. Someone has decided to include siege mentality in the brief for building Britain.”
Tags: architecture · terrorism · uk
Train Drivers View
July 14th, 2007
Train Drivers view Paddington-Hammersmith (YouTube) “Tube drivers caught video-recording their journey and posting them on the internet could face disciplinary action, London Underground has warned.” BBC: YouTube shows Tube driver journey
Arts under Blair. A golden age?
May 17th, 2007
The Guardian: “What did Britain achieve in the arts in the past 10 years, and how much was the government responsible?” (Via De Leestafel.)
Tags: art · blair · cinema · literature · music · politics · uk
BBC online
May 14th, 2007
The Guardian: “The BBC’s desperate attempt to lead the new media revolution has been fraught with controversy, delays and huge costs.” Achtergronden bij het artikel: What’s happened to innovation at the BBC?
The lost art of great speechmaking
April 20th, 2007
The Guardian: “The days when great parliamentary orators would hold audiences rapt for hours are long gone, replaced by the incoherent impulse of the digital age, writes Simon Schama.” Met een mp3 van Winston Churchills fameuze ‘We shall fight on the beaches’, 4 juni 1940.
Tags: rhetoric · simon schama · speech · uk · winston churchill
Call that humiliation?
March 31st, 2007
Terry Jones: “No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch.”
Tags: humor · iran · iraq · terry jones · uk · usa · war on terror
Films from the Home Front
February 14th, 2007
Films from the Home Front: “Films from the Home Front’ brings together a collection of unique moving images illustrating what life was like for ordinary people in Britain during the Second World War, as seen through amateur documentaries, newsreels, government films, and home movies.” (Via Marie-Jose Klaver.)