Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Stories we tell

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Since we were small children, we have all needed stories – to help us understand and come to terms with the strange world we inhabit. In...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

Where is the shared Understanding and Vision?

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There must be tens of thousands of books (in the English language) about the global financial crisis and the deeper malaise it revealed ...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Round up the Usual Suspects!

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One of the questions which nags away at me is why “progressives” don’t spend more time trying to seek a consensus agenda which can halt ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

The Centre Cannot Hold.....

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I’m delighted to report – however belatedly – that management guru Henry Mintzberg has duly published his long-awaited pamphlet Rebalanc...

What is to be Done?

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Since 2001 I’ve been worrying away at a long essay variously entitled “ What is to be Done? ”, “ Living for Posterity ” and “Draft Guide...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Stalking the Big Beasts

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For the past few days, as I’ve commuted between the mountains and the plain, I’ve been considering starting a(nother) series of posts – ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Identities

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In 2011 did a post about identities which recounted how, when I was going through some difficult times, a friend tried to help by encou...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

Departure

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Death we prefer not to face…I’ve reached that age where I understand the essayist Joseph Epstein when  he wrote the other day  that  ...