Homework assignment ✍️🤓
Added 2023-09-23 22:14:19 +0000 UTCHOMECOMING continues apace and while I am ill and stuck in the house, I thought up some homework for you to complete before the next episode. Watch this:
https://youtu.be/cWoEb7O12uE?si=lXFNfClV8SfuyMOX
It’s an all time classic and also one of a handful of actually good British gangster movies. Occasionally it appears on YouTube in full for free but you should be able to rent it for a couple of bob if not. It’s also going to form the backbone of episode 75, in which we get to grips with the City, armed robbery, the IRA, the Craft, and the Thatcher Supremacy.
Comments
Ha. I weirdly watched that a few months ago. My man does not love gentrification. And it must have been shot around a similar time as this film, it's ironic that he's playing a property developing gangster
Mr Tu Damn Quoque
2023-10-07 20:27:14 +0000 UTCI do not recall there being a detailed mention of it except some passing references in Cartelworld #1, and I think in the episode that discussed Le Cercle/Blairite Labor fuckery/other assorted UK spookity-ookities; ohhh possibly in the episode discussing all the interlocked Russian expat/oligopolist capital still flowing rather freely over the British ruling class, basting their pudgy gouty pedo-faces in exotic forms of financial magicks, reaching beyond the cocaine laiden formulae of reverse supply chain financing and commercial credit default swaps...and into the kitchen pantry for some baking soda and ether...(I believe that episode also largely covered Roman Abramovich(sp?) and various royal/upper society connections.) That's just from memory so I could be missing something. Mainly wanted to mention though that there is a pretty thorough book that came out in the last five or so years, on the history and various economic and legal ramifications of the City of London, which after some searching, is called The City (2017) by Tony Norfield. From a brief glancing over a few months back it seems to cover the money laundering/tax shelter corporate city in a city thing well. Once I finish reading the fantastic but long "Palo Alto" (which covers Silicon Valley's material and ideological development over the course of California history which I also think listeners of this show would like) I'm hoping to get around to "The City" and maybe do a re-read of "From Hell" for (what I assume to be) proper Brit-mind, if there's gonna be a chain of UK episodes coming up.
Lukas Lion
2023-10-06 19:45:22 +0000 UTCI have an extremely stupid question that may turn out answered if I listen to more of your stuff: the fact that "London" and "The City of London" are distinct yet weirdly nested political-geogrpahical entities is very much unknown to almost all Yanks. I only know about this because I watched a CGP Grey video on it (https://youtu.be/LrObZ_HZZUc?si=CUR1gT_d3p9vaAj9), and I was wondering, was there any early episode when you explained all of that to potentially ignorant listeners (but for the grace of YouTube I would be one)?
Rohmer Simpson
2023-10-05 20:19:27 +0000 UTCExtra homework points for watching this video after LGF, an outstanding drift around the rapidly redeveloping South Bank with Hoskins and BBC movie critic Barry Norman - https://youtu.be/oTgqHsJ4410?si=wJfwYr233wFVwDNT
Rob Keery
2023-10-01 10:33:02 +0000 UTC
