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“... indeed with all justifications of punishment – concerns the issue of dangerousness. Jean Floud and Warren Young make a careful philosophical defence of the necessity of preventive detention for a limited number of offenders who have been found guilty, served their sentences and seem likely to revert to acts of violence if released. On ...”

“... of twenty made it to the senior secondary that year. The other was a quiet, red-haired girl called Jean Thomson and she was also put in the lowest grade, in her case 1G. Our parents were working-class and when I read in Todd’s book that ‘working-class children were likely to find themselves relegated to the lowest streams of grammar schools, regardless of ...”

“... of Indira Gandhi. A little group of us flew out together, Air India, first class: Michael Foot, Jean Floud, William Radice, with Sir Richard Attenborough in pursuit. It was my pleasure to travel with my old friend and newly-minted Dame, Iris Murdoch. I’ve never travelled first before, and well! Cocktails, champagne, caviar, lobster ... Young Dame ...”

“... and the list goes on. Where is Marx on this list? Is he missing because she knew Marx already, via Jean Floud perhaps, who ‘saved’ her by introducing her to sociology, or some more obviously ‘revolutionary’ form of ‘practice’; or was she not that much of a Marxist at all? ‘Instead of politicising academia,’ as she wrote in The Melancholy ...”