Looking Sideways: 10 Things
Here are this week's ten things I thought were worth sharing.
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1. This intriguing story has been developing for a while - friend-of-the-pod Hugo Tagholm has joined forces with the Good Law Project and is talking the government to the High Court ‘to force (them) to take much tougher action to stop water companies from dumping raw sewage into our coastal waters’.
Find out more here and donate to the fund here.
2. Wavelength Magazine have discovered the charms of the Hot Pipes, our Brighton local. See it on a good day, above, and read the story here.
3. Happy 90th birthday Yoko Ono. Celebrate with this iconic clip of her aurally gatecrashing this bro-down between John Lennon and Chuck Berry.
4. Natural Selection Duels is now live! Watch the Mikel versus Ulrik opener in full and the rest as they drop here.
5. Essential viewing at the Saatchi Gallery. Tickets and more info here.
6. Are swimmers in the UK really only able to swim in 3% of the country’s rivers? As this Outdoor Swimming Society blog explains, it’s a bit more complicated that that.
7. I really enjoyed this New York Times profile of ex-pod guest Sachi Cunningham by Bonnie Tsui, another pod alumna.
8. Another reflective snowboarding short: this one on the impact of climate change on the landscape and community in Riksgransen.
9. This FT piece about ‘the battle for the soul of the B Corps movement’ is a nice counterpoint to the usual coverage.
10. ‘The other Tyre Nichols’ video, an extremely moving piece by Neftalie Williams that reminds us of Tyre the skater, while also exploring the ‘double consciousness’ that is the black American experience.
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Love the newsletters and the podcast, one of the best out there...
For the first time i've got a 'but'...
Paying the Saatchis to see street art?! To me kind of missing the point, as the name suggests it should be on the streets, I'll go to the Leake Street arches to see it in it's proper home not pay someone to see their hidden collection....
Thanks for highlighting the piece by Neftalie Williams. The article and topic would’ve been powerful enough without the tragedy underpinning it. Incredible writing on an unbearable pain.