Peripheral Vision

a celebration of intellectual trespassing by a retired "social scientist" as he tries to make sense of the world..... Gillian Tett puts it rather nicely in her 2021 book “Anthro-Vision” - “We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision”.

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Flushing out what's worth reading

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A couple of months ago, in a post headed No Excuse for Apathy I reminded readers (and myself!)  that one of my unfinished projects has be...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

Beacons of Hope

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Employee-ownership is not the most obvious of subjects to set one's spirits soaring  - but two books I’ve just been reading on this su...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Introducing the Romanian Realists

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I’ve been stuck this past week on the hot Bucharest plain - so not exactly fizzing with ideas. I took the opportunity to pull together som...
Friday, June 5, 2015

Why are the Brits schizophrenic?

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The British public remains proud of its National Health Service – although electors have shown little apparent concern at the non-stop org...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Praising - not Burying

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People writing books on social affairs will usually spend at least a couple of years on their book – only to see it dealt with in a 1,00...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

You have nothing to lose but your Chain.....-link Fences

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The last few posts may have appeared to have had different themes but, I realise, were linked to the basic difficulty we seem these days i...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Stand and Deliver - a new design for successful government??

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A week ago I mentioned Ed Straw's  “Stand and Deliver - a new design for successful government” . In this – and a future post – I wa...

The Internet - part III

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I’m always about three years behind – be it films, fashions or books. And I’m not all that interested in the latest “technological break...
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Can be contacted at bakuron2003@yahoo.co.uk Political refugee from Thatcher's Britain (or rather Scotland) who has been on the move since 1991. First in central Europe - then from 1999 Central Asia and Caucasus. Working on EU projects - related to building capacity of local and central government. Home base is an old house in the Carpathian mountains
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