Robin Kinross
@kinross.bsky.social
Editor, typographer. Wants UK constitutional remake. Supports underdogs. ‘Books that lie open’: https://robinkinross.substack.com/profile/posts
Hatherley's balanced and perceptive assessment of the later John Berger, marred by "a certain folksy soulfulness". Good for him for saying this out loud, and good for NLR for publishing it. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Owen Hatherley, Hope and Defeat — Sidecar
On late Berger.
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I felt that my eyes were already giving off a more steady look and stuck my hands into my trouser pockets with an ease that half an hour before was completely unknown to me.
Willem Elsschot@willemelsschot.bsky.social · 3w agoIk voelde dat mijn ogen reeds een vastere blik afgaven en stak mijn handen in mijn broekzakken met een losheid die mij een half uur te voren nog volkomen onbekend was.
Discussing these books by Irénée Scalbert robinkinross.substack.com/p/three-book...
Three books by Irénée Scalbert
Never modern (2013) has two authors, Irénée Scalbert and 6a architects. It is an essay by the first about the work of the second. Scalbert, French by birth, has for many years lived in London, where h...
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Destination stones from the old Blackfriars station in London, rescued and reconfigured: when read across the rows – a surreal poem when read down the columns, its beautiful but more mundane
a pivotal book that changed the way many of us think about the UK – and a difficult one, partly because of its nature as a collection of discrete essays
Gerry Hassan@gerryhassan.bsky.social · 2mo agoEvery home should have a copy of Tom Nairn's The Break-Up of Britain. I have every edition from 1977 to 2021. It is not just abt Scotland. It is abt the fracturing of the UK, the rise of English nationalism, challenge of Europe pre-Brexit & emergence of 4 nation politics. Still as relevant as ever.
Thinking of Rollins, Davis, and all the others of their generation, I remember Adam Shatz writing recently in the LRB: "Yet, paradoxically, it was jazz in particular, and Black music more generally, that prevented me, as it still does, from giving up on America." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
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An early example of unjustified setting
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2mo ago‘Henry Lanley and his wife, Katherine, will be forever remembered by typographical enthusiasts for having bought Caxton’s indulgence on 13 December 1476. With any luck they’ve made it out of purgatory by now.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the English printing press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Max Roach Gustav Leonhardt Anthony Braxton András Schiff Lee Konitz Frans Bruggen Betty Carter Christian Zacharias Marilyn Crispell Christoph Prégardien
On two editions of Arundhati Roy’s latest book: one made in India, one made in the UK robinkinross.substack.com/p/arundhati-...
Arundhati Roy’s new book in two editions
Penguin Random House India and Penguin Random House UK
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A space had formed around Boorman, as around a madman.
Willem Elsschot@willemelsschot.bsky.social · 3mo agoRond Boorman had zich een leegte gevormd als om een krankzinnige.
On Josephine Rombouts's 'Cliffrock Castle' robinkinross.substack.com/p/cliffrock-...
Cliffrock Castle
working at a castle in Scotland
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Strange that just now there was peace and then suddenly it's war. The one followed the other as simply as Easter after Lent.
Willem Elsschot@willemelsschot.bsky.social · 4mo agoEigenaardig dat het zo-even nog vrede was en nu ineens oorlog. Het ene was zo doodeenvoudig op het andere gevolgd als Pasen op Vasten.
🇫🇷 Sen. Claude Malhuret: "I compared the Trump presidency to Nero's court. I was wrong. It's a court of miracles. An anti-vax ex heroin addict as Health Sec; a climate skeptic as Econ Sec; an alcoholic TV host as Def Sec; an ex Qatari agent as Attorney Gen; a Putin groupie as Homeland Security Sec."
Europe depends on US companies to handle digital payments, putting our money at risk. A strong Digital Euro would give everyone safe, independent access to money. But banks and Big Tech want to kill the proposal. Sign the petition now: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-02...
Save the Digital Euro
Europe depends on US companies to handle digital payments, putting our money at risk. A strong Digital Euro would give everyone safe, independent access to money. But banks and Big Tech want to kill t...
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Still a few tickets left for his 4 hour epic ‘For Philip Guston’ in London this Sunday. I’ll be on my way from Scotland… And the great Sheffield label www.anothertimbre.com are making his music available and accessible like it’s never been. Happy 100th Morty www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...
David Collard@davidcollard.bsky.social · 7mo agoHere's Feldman's mesmerising 'For Samuel Beckett, which he completed shortly before he died: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH2J.... It's a piece that 'begins in the middle of nowhere, drifts around for about 45 minutes, and then simply stops.' (David Hurwitz, Classics Today)
"Waiter," he asked suddenly, "do you have real Guinness?" "Sure", came the quiet answer. "Bottled in Dublin? You're not joking?"
Willem Elsschot@willemelsschot.bsky.social · 7mo ago"Kellner," vroeg hij opeens, "heb je echte Guinness stout?" "Jawel," klonk het rustige antwoord. "In Dublin gebotteld? Zonder gekheid?"
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Claim that video shows bagpiper playing over call to prayer in Scotland is False
A video showing a man playing bagpipes during a Muslim call to prayer was widely shared on social media this week, after being boosted by accounts critical of Islam. The short clip was posted on X n...
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