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The Party of Eros: Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom is a book-length contemporaneous intellectual history of the New Left written by Richard King and published by University of North Carolina Press in 1972. It analyzes the intellectual development of figures including Norman O. Brown, Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, Dwight Macdonald, and Wilhelm Reich. .. more

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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · 10h
too kind!

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d
Yep, The Times is going with 'The murder of Renee Nicole Good is the fault of immigrants'.

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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · 3d
I made a documentary about The Kitchen, New Music and SoHo during the 1970s. People I spoke with include Steve Reich, Sharon Zukin, George Lewis, Thurston Moore & Robyn Farrell. It's the Sunday Feature this weekend on Radio 3 - 7.15pm and on BBC Sounds thereafter:
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BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, New Music New York
Richard King explores the conditions for musical creativity in New York City in the 1970s.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · 4d
A key early 1970s Burbank text!

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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · 4d
Was probably influenced by earlier Joni but I'd vote for And So On by Jimmy Webb:
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JIMMY WEBB - Met Her On A Plane (1971)
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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · 4d
I know nothing about gamification, but sense this may have something to do with it. Suspect they may me given pep pills as well.

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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · 4d
And, arguably, two proper bowlers.

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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · 23d
Written statements followed by cross examination. 'Mr McCullum, please could you state for the purpose of our enquiry, what you meant by the phrase 'over prepared'.

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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · Dec 10
'Process by Courage' is unnervingly Twickenham speak for when England Rugby is underperforming.

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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · Dec 6
It's the cricket equivalent of Loaded.

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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · Dec 5
Very much here for the memeification of RDF.

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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · Dec 5
Yes. Not to get all The Intellectuals and the Masses, but the gatekeepers could just about handle Aphex at Megadog. The fact there was an extended peripatetic community of tens of thousands of people which nevertheless didn’t buy anything apart from maybe Sounds was doubtless a factor.

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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · Dec 5
Might be because I was in the West County for first half of the decade, but find it curious that the Convoy and Travellers are absent from thee infinite 90s discourse.

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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · Dec 5
My first was ‘86. The atmosphere created by the combined energy of the Travellers Field and phalanxes of scallies across the site in 1990 felt incredible for sure. tej country we could have been.

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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · Dec 3
This feels like a re-run of 1980s de-industrialisation, except this time the industry is broadly successful and integral to the UK's shaky economic future.

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Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social · Dec 2
In Wales, Tory / Reform pre-Senedd '26 election merger, rather than pact, is currently being briefed, don't know how reliably.

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · Dec 2
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · Nov 27
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.