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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

Saturday, August 9, 2025

The 2000th Post

Today, I have much pleasure announcing, is the day I mark my 2000th post. It’s taken some 16 years to reach this goal – that’s some 125 posts a year by my reckoning although I’m only hitting 46 so far this year. In 2014 I celebrated the 1000th post in this way and have picked out some of my more neglected posts (starting with some older ones)

Some Notes on a Crisis Memorable Messages The Search for the Holy Grail What will it Take to rekindle our lost faith in the political process Journeys in Scotland Why don't we ask more interesting questions?
What is to be Done?
If you look at the right-hand column, you will see no less than 28 of the Ebooks
I have made from the posts during these 16 years – several are complete books 
such as The Long Search for Democracy and “What is to be Done? – dispatches 
to the next generation” - but most are shorter eg

Diaries, Letters and Memoirs (August 2025) Gradually I’ve accumulated an annotated list of some 250 books of memoirs, letters, diaries and biographies with hyperlinks to the text of most

Notes on the concept of CHANGE (August 2025) classifies, lists and (briefly) assesses 130 books on this subject

Just Words? A sceptic’s glossary (March 2024) I’ve taken a great deal of pleasure in identifying all relevant texts and then developing my own caustic definition of some key and commonly used phrases

Puzzling Cultural Values (Jan 2024) În the brave 90s, talk of culture became unfashionable but has recently become more acceptable. This paper explores possible reasons for the change

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