Author Archives: andyjamison

As a lifelong fan of the New York Knicks I can’t help feeling quite excited about their recent victory in the American professional basketball championships, their first in 53 years. Here’s a film about it: And here’s Mayor Mamdani’s celebration speech, another good one: A joyous midsummer to you all!

Stuart Russell is a new columnist for the Guardian and one of those rare individuals who is a highly competent scientist with a strong sense of social responsibility and to judge from wikipedia, he seems to know what he’s talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Russell Let’s hope he can help us find ways to control the AI genieContinue reading “Dealing with the genie”

One of the real pleasures of living in Malmö has been my weekly – and sometimes more – visits to the restaurant, Davidshall, which is just down the street from our apartment and where a good beer and a good meal and a few laughs were always available, and just the right way to relaxContinue reading “Now or never”

Some years back Thomas Piketty, a French economist, published a book, Capital in the Twenty-first Century, which explained and documented the rise of global inequality. Unlike most academic books, it managed to reach a large audience and helped to change the way that economics was perceived in the wider world. Now he and his colleaguesContinue reading “Enough is enough”

Pope Leo has released his first encyclical – about artificial intelligence – and let us hope that it might have some real influence in the real world. It is something that used to be common practice among governments and “think tanks” and universities, as well as churches and many other institutions both formal and informal,Continue reading “The new Babel’s Tower”

They make a lovely pair, the lilies of the valley and the wild strawberries and when they bloom together it’s hard not to count your blessings and think that better times are on the way, which brings to mind another Eva Cassidy song.

It’s too early for the barley in Sting’s song but the rape fields are at their golden best this time of year in southern Sweden. Here’s one right near our country house. And yesterday I walked through a meadow with another shade of gold at Tjörnedala in Baskemölla.

The British newspaper The Guardian, which has become my main source of information these days as most other newspapers have succumbed to the bad taste and bad vibes that characterize our times, has asked a number of writers and critics to choose what they consider to be the ten best novels published in English and,Continue reading “Come and get ’em”

A young woman came into the shop yesterday and asked if I had any books about Joe Hill and I said I did and showed them to her – a biography and a novel – and we started talking and listening to records – I had Finn Zetterholm’s Joe Hill record which she had neverContinue reading “Remembering Phil Ochs”

Eileen Laurie will be in the shop tomorrow night with a display of her artwork – linocuts and risoprints using plant dyes, as well as pen and ink paintings and watercolours – that will be on sale at Andy’s Corner. So do come by and take a look!