Friday, August 31, 2012

Climate Change - celebrating the clumsy approach

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The UK Royal Society of Arts is an interesting British institution – committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s so...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Property, theft and municipal strategies

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Rural crime, we are told by the radio, has been increasing so much recently that new policing methods are being introduced.  Curious to kno...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Social Democracy alive and well?

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I don’t talk enough here about my homeland – so I am glad to devote this post to an important policy issue in devolved Scotland . Melissa B...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Prejudiced Orthodoxes

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Although I’m a great lover of classical music, I was a great Queen fan in the 1980s and have always been very fond of Dire Straits. It’s onl...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Open Government as terrorism

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I had wanted to say something about the Swedish context of the Assange extradition process. But two major contributions persuade me to postp...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Julian Assange - leaking in America and Sweden

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The Assange story becomes more and more convoluted – with sex and lies making it difficult to focus on the real issues. So, in the true spi...
Monday, August 20, 2012

tourists in Brasov

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First two weeks of August overcast and cool – but the cloudless blue skies now encircle the Carpathian mountain ranges again. Saturday we ac...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Rule of Law

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In commenting on the Pussy Riot “witchtrial” in Moscow , I broke my general rule not to comment on ongoing events. My blood boiled, however,...