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.

0:00 Introduction 

4:11 More Today Programme Coverage

5:10 H.E.R. Today Gone Tomorrow?

20:51 It’s not Easy Being a Student in 2021

30:22 Something Positive!?

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Link of the Week: 

Corfitz Ulfeldt's pillory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corfitz_Ulfeldt

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Links:

Council Acts After Accusations Metal Detecting Rally Company Used H.E.R. Data to Target Archaeology:

http://thepipeline.info/blog/2021/11/08/council-acts-after-accusations-metal-detecting-rally-co-used-h-e-r-data-to-target-archaeology/

We were ahead of the curve - One of the benefits of the weekly format:

The Today Programme and The War on the National Trust: An Episode in Shameful Journalism:

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/11/04/the-today-programme-and-the-war-on-the-national-trust-an-episode-in-shameful-journalism/

No 10 is marching through cultural institutions - and making a battleground of the arts:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/08/tories-cultural-institutions-war-no-10-museums-decolonisation

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Save Sheffield Archaeology ‘United Against Cultural Vandalism’ - 1st December:

https://www.facebook.com/SaveSheffieldArchaeology/posts/195318222754570

Save Worcester Archaeology: Decision on the Future of Academic Staff:

https://twitter.com/saveworcsarch/status/1453709108083924994

Big Mandate for Strike action at UK Universities over pay & working conditions:

https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/11860/Big-mandate-for-strike-action-at-UK-universities-over-pay--working-conditions

UCU members back strikes over pension cuts:

https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/11857/UCU-members-back-strikes-over-pension-cuts

University Strikes: Academics at 37 Institutions Support Action:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-59171771

Durham University staff vote to strike this term over pensions cut:

https://www.palatinate.org.uk/durham-university-staff-vote-to-strike-this-term-over-pensions-cut/

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Tulip Reaction: ‘Death to the Cocktail Cornichon’:

https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/tulip-reaction-death-to-the-cocktail-cornichon

Tulip Tower plan Rejected by Gove:

https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/buildings/tulip-tower-plan-rejected-by-gove-11-11-2021/

Archaeologists Discover Ancient ‘Hangover Prevention’ Ring: