Friday, November 30, 2012

Why is public management so boring?

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In the last three years I have apparently written almost 700 posts. The right-hand column indicates the most popular posts – alternately ...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

What hope for democracy?

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The castration of democracy by corporate power has been a recurring theme in my blogs – and I did on one occasion even suggest that the ...
Monday, November 26, 2012

The disease of managerialism

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One of the reasons I blog is that I see myself very much as “a child of my times”; someone who felt in the early 1960s the power of what ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

wine as medicine

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November seems to be the period for testing the Sofia medical systems – this time last year I blogged about an experience with the excell...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Bulgarian Wine - as Culture

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Well I certainly learned a lot more about Bulgarian wines over the weekend – both in the biblical sense (experience) and intellectually. Pa...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

The vocabulary of wines

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This will be a short post since I am heading out to Part II of a marathon wine-tasting which I alighted upon by accident as I was out c...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Privatisation exposed!

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Time was when Chile (under General Pinochet) was the test-bed of how far right-wingers could go in destroying a society and country. Now ...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Who wants to be The European Capital of Culture - and why??

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Bulgaria is one of the few EU member states which has not so far seen one of its cities designated as a  European City (since 1999 “Capit...