Friday, October 31, 2014

The undermining of cooperation

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My apologies for the minimal posts of the past fortnight – I was moving from the attic flat I had in central Sofia to a somewhat larger on...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Are we going to Hell?

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In a couple of weeks it will be 25 years since the Berlin Wall fell. Celebrations, I suspect, will be muted. How far we have fallen sin...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

The scourge of Neophilia

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I’ve been busy this past week – and here’s why…. Last Friday I suddenly decided to see if another suitable rented flat was available in ...
Friday, October 17, 2014

A five-letter word which sends shivers around the world

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One of my closest friends has been working in Sierra Leone for the past 18 months – as Team Leader of a civil service reform project in Fr...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Through a Glass ....Darkly

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We don’t need anyone these days to tell us that we’re in a mess. Nor to explain why. The libraries are groaning with books on globalizatio...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

Writing as Power

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It’s rather a coincidence that the Nobel Prize for Literature is announced the very day I wanted to complete a post about the question whi...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

The comedy of words

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I am a great reader – and fairly prolific writer. Indeed at one point, my secretary in the 1980s called me “ paperback writer ” in an allu...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

The Search for the Holy Grail

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I’m now doing some final work on the new website – whose name is still “ Mapping the Common Ground – ways of thinking about the crisis ”. ...