Sunday, July 16, 2017

Cultural Change - a neglected topic

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Two issues have dominated my life – for the first 20 years what we in Scotland initially called (in the early 70s) “multiple deprivation” ...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Some Hope in the Balkans for social cooperation?

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For some 20 years, a significant part of my life was devoted to the encouragement of community building – first at a neighbourhood level; ...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

Talking Past One Another

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A casual conversation about wine on a flight between Bucharest and Vienna turned, sadly, into a cultural stand-off. The young man in the w...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

New Hope in Britain – if not Europe?

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For a year, many of us had virtually given up hope for Britain. The 2015 election had been bad enough in its granting the Conservatives an...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Getting Government Reform taken seriously

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We are increasingly angry these days with politicians, bureaucrats and government – and have developed an appetite for accounts and expl...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Twenty good sites for those looking for serious analysis

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My last post was a bit too pessimistic in suggesting that those looking for alternative analyses to the rubbish perpetrated on anglo-saxon...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Passing Thoughts

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My partner complains that I now spend all day with my bum in a chair and my face in the laptop and there is no doubt that our minds and bo...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Britain's "Ceausescu moment"?

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Something strange is going on in British politics – the electorate seems now to be developing a mind of its own!  The British political c...