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Robin Kinross
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Editor, typographer. Wants UK constitutional remake. Supports underdogs.

‘Books that lie open’: https://robinkinross.substack.com/profile/posts
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Robin Kinross @kinross.bsky.social · Mar 10
This painting of a stitched section ('Circular') looks incidentally like a demonstration of paper grain: long grain (good!) on the left page, short/cross grain (not so good) on the right page.
Alison Watt, 'Circular', 2024
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New on my Substack:
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Blank pages count
On Helen DeWitt’s ‘The English understand wool’
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November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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A note on the physical production of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

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Fitzcarraldo Editions
The British publisher Fitzcarraldo issued its first books in 2014.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Five books from Rab-Rab Press. New on my Substack:

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Cover of the book 'Free jazz communism', representing the latest post on my Substack pages: 'Books that lie open'.
September 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Yes.

Constitutions that protect individual rights can be trampled over (as now in the USA).

But a constitution that entrenches human rights, and is then overridden, and is then challenged in the courts, is better than the UK's sovereignty of 10 Downing Street.
gerryhassan.bsky.social Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · Sep 26
This torturous argument for compulsory ID cards fails on the basics. Most European states have written constitutions & fundamental rights. The UK has no written constitution; worse its citizens have zero fundamental rights: ie: every right you think you have can be taken away by an act of Parliament
robfordmancs.bsky.social Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · Sep 26
“A Farage government will use it against immigrants and marginalised groups.” They might, yes, but they might also exploit the *lack* of universal id to persecute such groups (as has already happened in US). Having a universal credential to prove your rights can be a * protectjon* against this.
September 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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September 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Some discussion of 'The alienation effect', seen also as an artefact

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The alienation effect
How Central European émigrés transformed the British twentieth century
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September 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Madurodam
Farm buildings with cows. A crow in the foreground. Seen today in Madurodam, The Hague. Plants in the foreground, then a canal scene, with a man in the background. Seen today in Madurodam, The Hague.
August 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Karel Martens Unbound at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

One of the most intelligent and beautiful design/art exhibitions I've ever seen.

Until 26 October: inderdaad, onmisbaar!
View of the Martens exhibition at the Stedelijk, Amsterdam. Items are held in the steel-framed shelving system that KM uses in his own studio. The printed exhibition guide explains everything, compartment by compartment.
August 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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TT 538: Boogie Woogie
from "Rhyme and Repetition Symposium" in THE THREEPENNY REVIEW, now with small selected discography
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August 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The life, times and work of William Gillies
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The life, times and work of William Gillies
An exceptional account of this artist
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July 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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This shouldn't be an issue.

Hampstead Heath has three ponds: women / men / mixed
iandunt.bsky.social Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Jul 15
So, to be clear: trans women have been using these facilities without a problem and the membership have voted to have them there. But a group of zealots are now going to launch a legal challenge to force them to discriminate.

www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
July 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Very good statement from #MSF in today’s Guardian
Statement on Gaza by Medecins Sans Frontiers in today’s Guardian newspaper
July 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Well, like everyone, I've started a Substack:
'Books that lie open'
It's here: robinkinross.substack.com
Books that lie open | Robin Kinross | Substack
A discussion of books: what they tell, and their material substance. Click to read Books that lie open, by Robin Kinross, a Substack publication. Launched 3 hours ago.
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June 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Karel Martens at the Stedelijk Musem, Amsterdam
12.07.2025 — 26.10.2025

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monoprint on an old card-index card, by Karel Maretens
April 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Reposted by Robin Kinross
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If Trump & Musk have suffered an unprecedented number of judicial injunctions, it is because they have committed an unprecedented number of illegal actions. We don’t have rogue district judges, we have a rogue president violating the Constitution & breaking the law every day. Watch my statement:
democrats-judiciary.house.gov House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · Apr 1
Ranking Member Jamie Raskin delivers his opening statement during today’s hearing on how MAGA Republicans want to change how the judicial system works because Trump keeps losing in court.
Ranking Member Jamie Raskin delivers opening remarks
YouTube video by House Committee on the Judiciary
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April 2, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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“sneer of cold command”
jay.bsky.team Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Mar 18
Ozymandias
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
March 18, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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The osprey season has officially kicked off at Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve! Resident female osprey NC0, arrived back this afternoon for her 6th breeding season at Loch of the Lowes. 🦅
Female osprey, NC0, flies from the live camera to the messy nest at the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve and Visitor Centre. Female osprey, NC0, stands on the large nest at the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve and Visitor Centre.
March 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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"strikingly loyal and straightforward": RIP Carol

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Carol McNicoll obituary
Ceramic artist whose richly decorated everyday objects such as cups or jugs were given a surreal twist
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March 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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The debate between Max Bill and Jan Tschichold – its bibliography

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The 'Sonderdruck' of Bill's 'Über Typografie' (1946), in an envelope
March 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Barack Obama's rhetorical manner – very effective
adamjschwarz.bsky.social Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Mar 9
Canadian Prime Minister–designate Mark Carney:

"Donald Trump thinks he can weaken us with his plan to divide and conquer. Pierre Poilievre's plan will leave us divided and ready to be conquered. Because a person who worships at the alter of Donald Trump will kneel before him, not stand up to him."
March 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Alison Watt's new paintings on display at John Soane's Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing, London W5 – to which they partly respond.

Worth a long detour.
The gallery at Pitzhanger Manor, London W5 5EQ, with new paintings by Alison Watt
March 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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❤️ Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov

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Raskin Statement and Questions Posed to Elon Musk
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February 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Neal Ascherson:

'Old Mr Trump himself is visibly starting to “lose it”, and his wolfish team of courtiers are beginning to notice that. Just possibly, if it keeps the heid, Western democracy could emerge from this crisis with new strength.'

www.thenational.scot/politics/249...
Neal Ascherson: These are the unpleasant truths about Russia's war on Ukraine
‘I HIT bottom. But then I heard somebody tapping from underneath.” Just when it seemed that he could sink no lower, Donald Trump is reaching new…
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February 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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The Dutch architectural journal Oase 119 is just out:

'rationalism reviewed / rationalisme herzien'

cover material is grey card, printed in black and white(!?)
seems to use a 4 mm grid

Karel Martens (with Aagje Martens) at his modular best
front cover of Oase 119, designed by Karel Martens & Agje Martens front cover of Oase 119, designed by Karel Martens & Agje Martens, seen at an angle
January 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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there are quite a few of them
asls.org.uk Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Jan 25
Ellisland, 1791

Dear Sir:

Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution…

—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic
#BurnsNight
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Ellisland, 1791 Dear Sir: Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution; thou marriage-maker between vowels and consonants, on the Gretna-green of caprice; thou cobler, botching the flimsy socks of bombast oratory; thou blacksmith, hammering the rivets of absurdity; thou butcher, embruing thy hands in the bowels of orthography; thou arch-heretic in pronunciation; thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis; thou carpenter, mortising the awkward joints of jarring sentences; thou squeaking dissonance of cadence; thou pimp of gender; thou Lyon Herald to silly etymology; thou antipode of grammar; thou executioner of construction; thou brood of the speech-distracting builders of the Tower of Babel; thou lingual confusion worse confounded; thou scape-gallows from the land of syntax; thou scavenger of mood and tense; thou murderous accoucheur of infant learning; thou ignis fatuus, misleading the steps of benighted ignorance; thou pickle-herring in the puppet-show of nonsense; thou faithful recorder of barbarous idiom; thou persecutor of syllabication; thou baleful meteor, foretelling and facilitating the rapid approach of Nox and Erebus. R.B. Robert Burns | Letter to a critic, 1791 | The Works of Robert Burns, Volume 4
January 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM