A sticker at the front of a century-old book inspired some thoughts about the girl who once owned it as a school prize - Alina MacLachlan, of Uig, Portree, in the Outer Hebrides.
NB. It seems that the abbreviation "Archd." meant "archdeacon", not "Archibald".
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00:00:16 Oppenheimer
00:03:21 Barbie
00:03:56 Cillian Murphy
00:05:19 The Edinburgh Filmhouse
00:09:15 Camcorders
00:10:17 Farage and the banks
00:17:00 Poets
00:18:59 AI and social class
00:32:39 The ill-fated middle-class
00:37:55 Is the British class system still a thing?
00:41:00 Quality
00:42:57 AI and social class (cont.)
00:43:27 Sinead O'Connor
01:09:03 July 2023
01:10:51 Taking a break
01:12:01 A heckler
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00:01:27 The origins of Guy Fawkes Night (I)
00:02:22 Britain across four centuries
00:05:20 The origins of Guy Fawkes Night (II)
00:06:33 Alternative histories
00:07:21 Other British festivals
00:08:25 History and myth
00:09:13 Bonfire Night in my childhood
00:13:03 Film photography
00:13:54 Record shops and the instant availability of media
00:16:01 Photos, memory and historical truth
00:17:25 Media and ritual
00:19:03 Late '80s educational programme
00:20:20 Simulations, illuminations, hollow nations
00:31:12 The execution of Guy Fawkes
00:32:03 High treason, the death penalty, and Tony Blair
00:32:33 Guy Fawkes: villain and anti-hero
00:33:52 Guy Fawkes: symbol of anarchism
00:35:42 Banal modern "festivals"
00:36:39 Lewes, rebel spirit and COVID
00:39:42 Rebellion and futility
00:47:28 V for Vendetta
00:49:56 Low IQ intervention
00:50:29 Comments on accents
00:51:38 The necessity and the danger of small differences
00:53:42 Incidents at the Million Mask March
00:55:11 The Catholic/Protestant divide
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00:01:40 The January 6th hearings
00:04:16 The monarchy and the Windsors
00:06:47 Parallel societies
00:08:01 Jimmy Savile
00:12:37 Rock stars sleeping with underage groupies in the 1970s
00:15:24 Moral schizophrenia around youth and sex
00:16:45 Jimmy Savile (cont.)
00:17:41 Policing in a multiracial society
00:26:08 Architecture, Britain and beauty
00:34:46 The mercantile autism within the British psyche
00:36:56 Nice buildings in Scotland
00:37:24 Comparison of traditional and modern Glasgow architecture
00:38:39 Bad architecture is never "a mistake"
00:40:16 Tolerance of experimentation in architecture
00:40:55 The Scottish Parliament building
00:42:35 The Royal Ontario Museum
00:42:59 Slough Library
00:43:40 Bad architecture should literally be a crime
00:44:42 Building traditional architecture today
00:53:29 Cyberpunk, Metaverse, AI...
00:59:35 Google AI going sentient
01:06:24 How important is art for the movement? Potential of right-wing art to gain momentum
01:10:49 Architecture stuff: Our public facing rhetoric should have more of this
01:12:56 The Left had film and music, we can have video games
01:13:17 Common Purpose