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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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Public Services are too serious to be left to.......bureaucrats and academics

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A journalist friend has written making the very good point that people tend these days to live in what he called national “traumas” in wh...

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

What If???

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As I suspected, I’m still worrying away at some of the issues raised by the series of posts about the massive changes to our public serv...

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

We need to talk about…… “The State”

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We need to talk about….the State. Or at least about the “machinery of government” about whose operations I am most familiar – in local and...

Thursday, June 30, 2011

project bids, public services in hard times; and the craft of short stories

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Technical problems with blogspot prevented a post today. But my longer silence is due to my work on a bid for a project. I hate this stage w...

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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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