Yesterday I released a little book – which you can find as the lead item in the list of E-books in the top-right corner of the blog. It’s called “Voices in the Air” and is the edited version of last year’s blogposts.
It’s a balmy 15 degrees in
downtown Ploiesti, Romania today – with fewer cars on the street and a lot of
families enjoying a stroll in the park.
But the internet doesn’t
let up – and I realised from one of today's posts that I had not recently updated my
“blogroll” which is – perhaps confusingly – called “Insights into other worlds –
good writing and painting”.
So I have now duly deleted a few sites and added five new ones. It’s always sad to say goodbye – but 2 Romanian sites had not posted for more than a year and Eva Balogh, whose Hungarian Spectrum about the perversities of the Orban government made fascinating daily reading, died last month. Rest in Peace, Eva - your voice will be missed.
Five websites brought great delight in the last few months and needed to be added These are –
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Adam Tooze - prolific writer and
economic historian who has written the definitive histories of the Nazi
economy, the global financial meltdown and the pandemic and now produces every
few days an amazing collection of thoughts
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Global inequality - Branko Milanovic was a lead expert for the World Bank on the subject,
and has this highly individual blog
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Question the powerful – a great blog
from Henry Tam who writes powerful stuff about democracy and communitarianism
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Scheerpost - is the leading radical blog in
the US and hosts posts from the likes of Chris Hedges and Ralph Nader
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Surplus energy – offers
the challenging views of post-growth writer Tim Morgan
A second thing that I now realise is that I have never properly introduced to new readers all the other rich features of the blog which have grown a life of their own in the 12 years of the blog – particularly the list of E-books.
And, if you punch a favourite phrase into the search facility, chances are it will instantly give you something interesting. Try it.
Update; Just as the year was ending, I discovered a brilliant new blog “Accidental Gods” and the writing of Rupert Read.
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