Saturday, January 8, 2011

In praise of austerity

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The art blog I mentioned yesterday reproduces a range of quiet interior paintings by a 19th century Danish artist Hamersoi in which our at...
Friday, January 7, 2011

The eyes have it

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Entry to the National Gallery here is free the first Wednesday each month and we had wanted to visit the special exhibition they have of the...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Structures, systems and skills - demand and supply again

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As I said, I had a dream about deliberative structures - which got me thinking about the various mechanisms which those in think-tanks and c...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Good advice

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"I always pass on good advice", Oscar Wilde has a character say - Ït's the only thing to do with it". The use of consulta...
Sunday, January 2, 2011

The balance of power

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My blog managers have suddenly added a statistics button which tells me the number of people accessing the site. Quite salutary to learn tha...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Why academia is irrelevant

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The snow has at last reached Bucharest – although it’s fairly wet. We walked yesterday to Strada Doamnei (just off Piate Universitate) which...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Good resolutions

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The good weather continues. Christmas was passed in the quiet and isolated way which I find the only way to deal with it in Europe. Food was...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

a missing social democratic vision

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The mild weather continues. David Marquand – whose stuff is always worth reading – had a piece in Open Democracy the other day, emphasising...