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, December 5, 2011

Bankers as communist nomenklatura?

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In a nutshell, the governments that saved the banks and financial markets from a meltdown by borrowing huge amounts of monies are now be...

Monday, November 7, 2011

Public Interest - how innocent we were

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One of the really difficult things for people of my generation is to come to terms with is how venal our legislative and legal systems have ...

Monday, October 17, 2011

Identifying the real culprits

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I haven’t said anything in the blog yet about the Occupy Wall St protest movement - which is most remiss of me. An article in what is a new...

Thursday, July 28, 2011

asking the tobacco companies to draft public health policy

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You are all probably as confused about the Greek "bailout" and associated BRIC problems as I am. I have just read the clearest ...

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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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