Tuesday, May 14, 2019

A Transylvanian Dawn – and Victor Orban

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I woke early, with streaks in the black. night sky hinting of dawn but in the chill of a mountain house in a village 1400 metres high - w...
Monday, May 13, 2019

The last straight?

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What I’m hoping is the last stretch for the book proved more arduous than I thought – particularly checking that the 50 mini-essays which f...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Welcome Romania

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Fascinating that I had 662 hits from Romania yesterday – was that because the post about Seton-Watson mentioned his work from 1910 supporti...
Friday, May 10, 2019

Scotus Viator

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Robert Seton-Watson was a Scot who, in the early part of the 20th century, helped shape central Europe – in the very literal sense that his...
Friday, May 3, 2019

Notes on a Western Crisis

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I have known for a long time about the importance of taking a critical approach to one’s own writing - of reading it back as if I was a rea...
Friday, April 26, 2019

Six Questions about the new draft

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The book has now expanded to 140 pages – each of which seems to have half a dozen hyperlinks. That makes almost 1000 of them. The book stil...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

"A Pluralist “Reader’s Digest” Guide to the Global Crisis"??

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One of the great features of British newspapers – apart from the cartoons – used to be the “Parliamentary Sketch”.  Television cameras we...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Changing the World?

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I have long known that the trick – for any daunting task - was to break it down into small, manageable parts. .But I hadn’t until now rea...