Linton

Linton Kwesi Johnson is best known for 1975’s Dread Beat an’ Blood, the book of poetry he later recorded as an album, setting the verse against a dub reggae backdrop and releasing it under the moniker Poet and the Roots. More albums followed, with Johnson becoming known as the “dub poet”, though he is also a prolific writer of prose, as illustrated by Time Come, a collection of essays, obituaries and speeches spanning 45 years.Divided into sections covering music, literature, politics, places and people, the book finds…

One Saturday afternoon in 1972, Linton Kwesi Johnson was walking through Brixton market when he noticed three plainclothes police officers arresting a young man. Seeing their excessive use of force, his training kicked in. He had been in the youth section of the British Black Panthers and knew to write down the name and address of someone in a situation like this, because “the police would often arrest black youths and lock them up in remand centres without informing their next of kin”. But in retaliation the officers…

Now 70, Linton Kwesi Johnson, AKA LKJ, doesn’t age; he just gets more LKJish. His signature look – the neat, triangular goatee, jacket, tie and trilby – hasn’t changed. Nor has his poetry aged, whether on the page or stage, and best performed by the man himself, his deep Jamaican voice infused with gravitas. An innate musicality has always carried the rhyme and rhythm of his work.In his new book, LKJ writes without false modesty that, looking back, he sometimes finds his feat of straddling poetry and music “astounding”.…

In 2017, James Linton was working as a digital UX (User Experience) designer, with no idea what a few pranks over the next few months would lead to. Now, he works on helping people to understand all forms of phishing and whaling.Nowadays phishing is a well-known term, and has split into a myriad of others such as whaling, spear phishing, vishing, SMishing, dishing, and ever more niche terms. While phishing started off referring to just e-mail, now it covers any form of attack relying on impersonation fraud which uses…