Monday, August 3, 2015

New Blogs

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Like most active bloggers, I have a section on the site which lists my “favourite links” – and, like most bloggers, I rarely update it or ...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

Schuld

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I’m conscious that my big readers these past few weeks have been from Russian servers – although I’m not sure if they are from heartland R...

The Loss of German Identity?

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In the post-war period academics were about the only British writers who tried to deal with Germany – and then only historians such as AJP...
Friday, July 31, 2015

The Puritan Gift

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I’m always on the lookout for books which challenge how we look at the world which, I’ve realized, rarely come from the incestuous and pat...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Hugh Stretton - polymath and social democrat - RIP

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Most “social scientists” are actually narrow technical specialists – in such subjects as economics or political science – loathe to threat...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Culinary and cultural delights despite the Sofia heat

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I don’t remember such heat as I’ve experienced this past week in Sofia – although I lived through 4 Tashkent summers; 2 Baku ones and 2 B...
Friday, July 10, 2015

German Musings

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Tourism is one of the biggest global industries and yet gives us few real opportunities to fathom the soul of a country – although a retir...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Why are most of us Financial Illiterates?

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Readers know that, despite my 4 years of economic studies (and some years actually teaching it to others!), I make no claim to understand...