We can no longer believe anything which comes from the UK Establishment. The Metropolitan police force epitomises all that is rotten in that system and has been caught in yet another lie when it reports that Jeremy Corbyn forced his way through a police cordon during protests around the BBC for its abominable coverage of the Gaza genocide. Jonathan Cook has the full story here
a celebration of intellectual trespassing by a retired "social scientist" as he tries to make sense of the world..... Gillian Tett puts it rather nicely in her 2021 book “Anthro-Vision” - “We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision”.
what you get here
This is not a blog which opines on current events. It rather uses incidents, books (old and new), links and papers to muse about our social endeavours.
So old posts are as good as new! And lots of useful links!
The Bucegi mountains - the range I see from the front balcony of my mountain house - are almost 120 kms from Bucharest and cannot normally be seen from the capital but some extraordinary weather conditions allowed this pic to be taken from the top of the Intercontinental Hotel in late Feb 2020
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