Friday, April 29, 2011

populism

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There is an interesting post today on Social Europe about the loss of legitimacy of the established political parties in Europe – and the ...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Flesh and Blood

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The NISPAcee Conference in Varna advances apace (May 19-22) so yesterday I gave the present version to the local printer for him to run off...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Two model blogposts

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Two model blogposts – the first giving a superb example of the total undermining of the once great reputation of the British media . If this...
Monday, April 25, 2011

The state of the state - part II

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I've been silent the last couple of days simply because I have been surfing on the subject of state-building which I realised I had no...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

making sense of what we seem to be saying

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I’ve reached the point with my Conference paper of being able to read it as a critical outsider – interjecting, every now and then – a poin...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Good Friday's new norms

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My father would have been initially horrified (if not altogether surprised) that this morning – Good Friday – found me reading papers about...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Writing

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Writing seems to be even more a tool of power than it was in 1947 when George Orwell wrote his Politics and the English Language . Univers...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

In praise of mugwumps

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I think I stumbled on an important general insight yesterday when I said that most of my written work is done as a non-specialist, an outsi...