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”.

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Monday, May 31, 2021

Assessing a government’s record

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Is a balanced judgement on a government ever possible? I’ve just finished a book about New Labour under Tony Blair. He was PM for 10 years...

Monday, January 14, 2019

Populist – and proud of it

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Since 2011, I’ve blogged about populism four or five times – mainly in a neutral definitional way. But a combination last week of a coupl...

Sunday, August 15, 2010

more on UK coalition government

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The tectonic plates begin to move in the UK. Three months into the new coalition government, there is apparently an announcement brewing tha...

Saturday, August 7, 2010

moral choices

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Since I arrived in the mountains on Thursday afternoon, my nose has been stuck in 3 of the 17 or so new books which were waiting for me. The...

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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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