Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Classic LPs for vinyl returnees No.6 The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper Lonely Heart's Club Band Many of you likely thought I'd start here & to be frank I didn't just to make a point, but of course the Beatles most famous LP was ground-breaking; while consolidating some previous moves in popular music, it made a major statement about what was possible with the LP format. It needs little introduction other than to say the history of LPs would look quite different without it! #VinylCoreCollection #music

One way of thinking about current politics is to see it as an interaction between, 1. the distrust of the establishment - having been revealed again & again to be self-serving & corrupt (such revelations of course served up by media organisations seeking advantage from such revelations); 2. a sense of helplessness & lack of control - in the face of a political economy that seems done to us rather than by us! Hence the appeal of outsiders with simple ideas about 'doing something'! #politics

I'm not sure what the Tangerine Tyrant thought he was doing by prompting a significant redaction before the release of the Epstein Papers yesterday; rather than helping the innocent, all it does is stoke speculation & in his case, likely confirm to many, that his claim of non-involvement in Epstein's world after they argued, are lies that would have been revealed by the non-redacted documents. Given his often deft hand in shaping public argument its a strange miss-step #EpsteinPapers #Trump