Professor of Criminology & Social Policy, LSE. These days tweets mainly music-related (Everton FC & crime interests also). MD ANT. Also @[email protected]
Strong fresh coffee, finishing Rosa' fascinating 'Social Acceleration', accompanied by this belter from Lee Morgan (prompted by this morning's Desert Island Discs)
Many happy returns to Bob Dylan, who came into the world as Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1985 in Duluth, Minnesota. Eighty five years old today, and still busy being born.
This morning it's strong fresh coffee, Mingus' The Black Saint and Hartmut Rosa's 'Social Acceleration'. To be followed by as long as walk as I can manage (who knows?) in the spring sunshine
Today's listening and reading is Coltrane's wonderful My Favourite Things together with strong fresh coffee and Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt's 'Coddling of the American Mind'
Cut off from vinyl for a little while, so it's CDs and streaming for the next few days. Listening to this belter, the uplifting sounds of which are counteracting today's reading which is Anne Case and Angus Deaton's hugely important, but depressing, Deaths of Despair