Wednesday, March 8, 2017

The End of Work?

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Every now and then in my everyday life, I’ve had the sudden feeling that I was being granted a flash of insight into the future. In the la...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017

the concerned citizen is very badly served

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You would think that, after the last decade of the global crisis, it would not be difficult to find a few impartial books clearly written...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Bucharest's English bookshop closes its doors - hopefully temporarily

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Tens of thousands of demonstrators on the Bucharest street are still hoping to shame the new Romanian government into wholesale resigna...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Brexit Update

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I have been busy this past week or so trying to edit my writing of the past 15 years about “the global crisis” into a better shape  - it...
Friday, February 24, 2017

The Progressive Dilemma

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The eminent British journal The Political Quarterly has given us for 80 years the most elegant and insightful writing on British politi...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Diaries, Memoirs and Blogs

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Amongst my most treasured possessions are some notebooks of my grandfather and father from the 1930s as they trekked and camped in nort...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

"What is Truth?" asked Jesting Pilate.....and would not stay for an answer..

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I first came across the term “ post-truth politics ” last summer – but hadn’t appreciated the scale and nature of the “denial of facts” ...
Monday, February 13, 2017

We, the people?

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I almost threw a book at the television screen at the start of Trump’s inaugural address last month when he said that this “is  the day po...