Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Loadesaters episode 940 for, Wednesday the 19th of June 2024.

I'm your host Connor, joined by Carl.

Hello.

And Professor Eric Kaufman, thank you very much for rejoining us over at the website.

It's always a pleasure.

Yes, and after the show today today we will be talking about your

brand new book on my show Thompson Talks which will be

find the payroll so five pounds a month sign up you can get all of our stuff but

you've been up to plenty of stuff.

Do you want to give him a brief introduction for the audience

who may not have seen your previous interview?

Oh yeah, well, I mean, boy, where do I start?

I mean, I've left, I was at Birkbeck College,

University of London for 20 years and I believe

Carl may be familiar with Birkbeck that's where I did my philosophy degree and I did it because you were there and

then you left.

You were in the wrong department though, I mean.

Sure, but I thought, well at least there's a friendly face in the faculty, you know, so, you know, maybe I'll have a defender there if I get caught out or something.

But so...

Well, meanwhile they were coming at me with pitchforks, and so I had, you know,

Twitter mobings and internal investigations driven by, you know,

radical faculty members, many of whom were not in my department, actually.

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