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.

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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

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Link of the Week:

The Stonehenge Alliance:

https://stonehengealliance.org.uk/

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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-