Peripheral Vision

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”.

Saturday, December 13, 2025

More Leftist Stuff

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Four books up for review today – with the second being my favourite The Socialist Challenge Today Leo Pani tc h and Sam Gindin ( 2018 ) A...

Friday, December 5, 2025

Continuing the series on the Left

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After my brief foray into styles of writing, let me continue my series on the future of the left. Jeremy Gilbert and Hilary Wainwright are ...

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

A Celebration of Style

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I am currently reading “Panther Soup – a European journey in war and peace” (which, unfortunately, I can’t download) by John Gimlette and ...

Sunday, November 30, 2025

A couple more books on the leftist theme

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Alternative Societies for a Pluralist Socialism Luke Martell ( 2023 ) Chapter 1 cover s alternative economies of communism; co- ops and ot...

Sunday, November 23, 2025

Is the Left Finished? part 2

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I've been trying these past few days to get my head around a growing list of books I need to read. Here are some of them - with a few ex...

Monday, November 17, 2025

Is the Left Finished?

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I have been reading The Death of the Left – why we must begin from the beginning again S Winlow and S Hall (2022) - a 350 page book which c...

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nomadron: Bran-Rucar corridor, Carpathian mountains..., Romania; Can be contacted at bakuron2003@yahoo.co.uk Political refugee from Thatcher's Britain (or rather Scotland) who has been on the move since 1991. First in central Europe - then from 1999 Central Asia and Caucasus. Working on EU projects - related to building capacity of local and central government. Home base is an old house in the Carpathian mountains

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