Saturday, October 31, 2009

miscellaneous

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A busy 2 days – Friday was the day I was closing the mountain house for the winter. During the night I noticed what I thought was fog outsid...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

managerialism as ideology

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I asked why we had so easily forgotten the caution against hubris in the work of Karl Popper, James Scott etc Bit of a naive question! One o...

Trust

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Basically Labour (despite all the brave words) is no different – it simply does not trust people. And let there be no bones about it – this ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

the wrong model of government

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I’m now trying to explore the wider implications of the thoughts I posted earlier this morning – both on the blog and on the Guardian’s arti...

the new Weimar Republic

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The painting which heads the last posting (“rotten from top to bottom”) is, of course, Georg Grosz’s famous “The Pillars of Society” which h...

rotten from top to bottom

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Today’s Guardian has a good piece on the experience of 2 teachers who were recently charged with assault for manhandling in class an aggress...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

health warning - blogging can be good for your mind

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Honore Daumier - the legislative belly OK an example of the benefits of a daily blog - I read a review of Malcolm Gladwell’s (of “Blink”...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Scots heritage

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I learned a lot from re-reading Arthur Herman’s The Scottish Enlightenment – the Scots’ invention of the modern world (2003). He’s an Am...