Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

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Link of the Month:

The Paper Chase: The Printer, The Spymaster & The Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers:

https://tinyurl.com/y6xqh7am

Links:

05:30 – UK Archaeology outside the European Union:

Wessex Archaeology Announced as Highways England’s Archaeological Specialists for A303 Upgrade Near Stonehenge:

https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/wessex-archaeology-announced-highways-englands-archaeological-specialists-a303-upgrade-near

A303 Stonehenge Contractors Named:

https://highwaysengland.co.uk/our-work/a303-stonehenge/latest-news/a303-stonehenge-contractors-named/

MPs Reject Attempts to Strengthen Post-Brexit Fishing Protections:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/13/brexit-mps-reject-adopting-sustainable-quotas-in-fisheries-bill

Government Overturns Measures Aiming to Guarantee UK Food Standards in New Law:

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/government-overturns-measures-aiming-to-guarantee-uk-food-standards-in-new-law-39616777.html

Planning reforms are ‘big opportunity’ to tear down brutalist buildings, says Jenrick:

https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/planning-reforms-are-big-opportunity-to-tear-down-brutalist-buildings-says-jenrick/5108337.article

Institute for Government - Preparing Brexit: How Ready is the UK?

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/preparing-brexit-how-ready-uk