'Unlawful', Myopic, Moronic & Macho Management (Various News) – WB 25th June 2021

Welcome to Watching Brief. As the name implies, each week Marc (Mr Soup) & Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what they find. #WatchingBrief #HistoryNews #ArchaeologyNews *** 0:00 Introduction 01:27 Sheffield University – What Next? 09:11 Gavin Williamson HEPI Speech 24:02 Minister acted ‘Unlawfully’ Re: Stonehenge 35:15 George Osborne Appointed Chair of BM *** Link of the Week: The Stonehenge Alliance: https://stonehengealliance.org.uk/ *** Links: Will Hazell - Twitter Thread on Gavin William Speech to Higher Education Policy Institute: https://twitter.com/whazell/status/1407974596784050178 Andy Brockman Commentary of Gavin Williamson’s Speech to Higher Education Policy Institute: https://twitter.com/pipelinenews/status/1408070878940696585 Stonehenge Road Tunnel go-ahead Illegal, High Court told: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/23/stonehenge-road-tunnel-grant-shapps-go-ahead-unlawful-high-court-told Stonehenge Tunnel: Minister acted ‘unlawfully’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-57570335.amp Venice at risk of UNESCO ‘endangered’ listing: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/venice-unesco-endangered-list/index.html UNESCO: Liverpool Waters has ‘eroded’ integrity of WHS: https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/unesco-liverpool-waters-has-eroded-integrity-of-whs/ Liverpool deserves better than the humiliation of losing of its UNESCO status: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/liverpool-deserves-better-than-the-humiliation-of-losing-of-its-unesco-status/ar-AALrs97 George Osborne appointed chair of the British Museum: https://amp.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/24/ex-chancellor-george-osborne-appointed-chair-british-museum Former Chancellor Ge Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.