Monday, April 24, 2017

Denial, Distraction and Despair

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What the corporate media considers important are, for this blog, mere farts……hot air and smelly…… The last post was the blog’s first r...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

The Left on its Knees

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I’m grateful to the library of the European Council of Ministers for the monthly selection they send me of relevant papers from the mor...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Power - the elephant in the room

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My field of endeavour over the past half century has been “development” – but not of the international sort. I started with “ community de...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

It's All About...Values

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For almost 30 years I have been living in central european countries (actually seven of the years were in central Asia) and working on p...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Avoiding Best Practice

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The last few posts (on cultural values) have led me back to the draft of a little book I abandoned two years ago – Crafting Effective Pu...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Why Role Conflict is Good for You

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I was born and raised in a West of Scotland shipbuilding town, the son of a Presbyterian Minister (or “ son of the manse ” as we were kn...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

A Hundred Years of Solitude....alienation.... and "transition"?

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I’ve been in sensitive territory with my last three posts which covered the fields of “formal” and “informal” structures - and of the va...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

Are Nations really masters of their fates?

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I’ve just been doing an interview for a website about my experience of Romania. I found myself giving this rather severe response to one o...