1 Jan 2024's look at 1 Jan 1600

Books: Reflections on a full life, eccentricity, Type 7 Society

Happy 2024. A few days ago I celebrated my 66th birthday and the British welfare state went to much trouble to track me down in the Australian bush and offer me a state pension. I intend to use my state-defined retirement ‘age’ to pursue the greatest conceivable challenge in social science — a new theory and history of society.

Therefore my new year res…