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Robin Kinross

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Editor, typographer. Wants UK constitutional remake. Supports underdogs. ‘Books that lie open’: robinkinross.substack.com/profile/p…

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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wikipedia – still among the internet angels donate.wikimedia.org
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Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks – helpful!
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why is a referendum needed? When, for example, votes for women was introduced – a move that changed the electoral process radically – was a referendum considered?
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LettError Type @letterror.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On process, criteria and generative AI letterror.com/ai
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On generative AI at LettError.com
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the concert grand piano has been a detriment to human culture: discuss
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can remember when and where I heard the news of Miles's death – meeting/interviewing Petr van Blokland in Delft. The talk about digital typography stopped ...
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A discussion of Sylvia Path's last poem can't work at all without quoting some of its lines. My new book on Plath can work pretty well without the epigraph from Robert Lowell.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't think it's so odd. The epigraph is displayed, the "fairly dealt" quote is included. The text can work without the epigraph. The same text can't work or make sense without the quotes within it.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Avoid the queues, see the tapestry in Reading
section of the Bayeux tapestry in the nineteenth-century English copy held at Reading, with embroiderer's signature at the bottomthe copy of the Bayeux tapestry on the first floor of the Reading town museum (Reading, UK)
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
an oversized piece of wedding-cake neo-neo-classicism, with snipers and drones nesting on its top
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How is that both versobooks.bsky.social and penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social are publishing Tom Overton's John Berger biography? www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... www.penguin.co.uk/books/295293...
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John Berger
Tom Overton got to know John Berger around 2010, after he gave his archive to the British Library: a kind of homecoming to his birthplace, after a life lived mostly in self-imposed exile in Switzerlan...
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
On some books published by TLB: Peter Handke | Douglas Oliver & J.H. Prynne | John Wilkinson robinkinross.substack.com/p/four-books...
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Four books from The Last Books
works by Peter Handke | Douglas Oliver and J.H. Prynne | John Wilkinson
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
A photo that shows, left to right: the US property-developer diplomats Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
A photo that shows, left to right: the US property-developer diplomats Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
and good for Starmer for staying local
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ayer and Tottenham Hotspur – worth adding that the great Spurs teams of the 1960s were watched and commented on by a whole slice of the London intelligentsia, notably Hans Keller, Karl Miller. And Blanchflower was philosopher of the game. So it wasn't just the romance of the name "Hotspur". COYS!
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
it would be a venue to be cherished and revisited as long as we all draw breath
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
read once that open-necked was his way to deal with the consequences of his war injuries. For a public lecture he put on a tie, just before speaking
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
But for ECM they have to be out of focus
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Post a picture that should be an ECM album cover.
the moon over north London
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yes – I admit – rain. Drizzle, she said more precisely. Yes, actually drizzle.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
_'Take care of things', Edward said_ capitalization of initial word only – would have taken care of this
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
For the first few years ECM CDs were notably thicker and rounder in their edge than most other CDs. It always felt like a sign of generosity/luxury. But then ECM began to use thin discs, like everyone else. The bare, minimally printed ECM discs are still a model ...
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In this connection I keep on hearing in my head the sane, measured, humane, critical voice of Stuart Hall
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Your music tastes via three artists (no genres), Dutch band leaders only: 1. Gustav Leonhardt (1928–2012) 2. Misha Mengelberg (1935–2017) 3. Willem Breuker (1944–2010)
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yes, this is old-fashioned Oxford University Press English – but the rules are a little complex, for example 'improvisation' is spelled like that, for etymological reasons
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In our office we had a lidded box with 'work by colleagues' written on it.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
'perimeters' is an appropriately fuzzy word to describe the US / Israeli 'excursion' in Iran
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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...
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Owen Hatherley, Hope and Defeat — Sidecar
On late Berger.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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.
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Discussing these books by Irénée Scalbert robinkinross.substack.com/p/three-book...
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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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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
'Aren't you rather young to be writing your memoirs?' (B.S. Johnson, aged 40, in 1973, the year he committed suicide)
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
For "first past the post", let's try using "winner takes all" In the UK constitution, where the greatest effective power resides in Downing Street, this is a more accurate term (The monarchical power has been diverted to 10 Downing St, away from the Westminster parliament)
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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
Destination stones from the old Blackfriars station in London, now assembled in a block on a wall of the new Blackfriars station
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
the "unity of time" constraint will be a challenge
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Kaas!
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The imprecision of "next" in referring to the calendar is more a failure of the English language than a failure of Laura K or her scriptwriter If she had meant Thursday 11, not 18, she would have said "this Thursday"; but "next Thursday" – is that Thursday 11 or 18?
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Richard Carter is, among other things, an expert on Wardell Gray www.allaboutjazz.com/discovering-...
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Discovering Wardell Gray: An Interview with Biographer Richard Carter – Richard Carter | Interview | All About Jazz
Read Discovering Wardell Gray: An Interview with Biographer Richard Carter by Victor L. Schermer on All About Jazz. Discover in-depth jazz Interview coverage, artist features, and expert writing since...
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
the truth about Miles
letter from Richard Carter about Miles Davis's 'superior musical intelligence', published in the Guardian, 1 June 2026
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Buildings of England is one of the great cultural achievements of its time, in every way – including book production. Hans Schmoller was the series designer, and I think rather more than just a designer (he had an editorial mind)
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The maps in Pevsner's Buildings of England were one of its best features – very good non-arty calligraphy. Fitted well with Hans Schmoller's page design. I guess that he would have asked for letterforms that matched the type (Plantin with its large x-height)
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It will certainly require a new arrangement of seating in the Westminster chamber(s) – no longer split into opposing rows
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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...
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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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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
An early example of unjustified setting
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
and Sheila Jordan too
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Max Roach Gustav Leonhardt Anthony Braxton András Schiff Lee Konitz Frans Bruggen Betty Carter Christian Zacharias Marilyn Crispell Christoph Prégardien
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Max Roach Gustav Leonhardt Anthony Braxton András Schiff Lee Konitz Frans Bruggen Betty Carter Christian Zacharias Marilyn Crispell Christoph Prégardien
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Penguin began to lose its quality and tastefulness with the death of Allen Lane in 1970 – soon after the company was sold to Pearson: the first step in its conglomeration
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I have wondered about this too, but decided not to get into an interpretation of the change in colour values. I think it may be accidental/incidental. Here are the back covers, for comparison
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