Thursday, June 27, 2019

Reading Week - part III

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The second full category of books in my library are those which I have read but which need to be read and reread for their full value to...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Reading Week - II

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The last post identified three categories in my library – “so far unread”, “done and dusted” and “virtual”. But I now realise that there is...
Monday, June 24, 2019

Reason as the servant of Passion

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One of the delights of my house in the Carpathian Mountains is the library – with books cascading from shelving which started almost 20 y...
Friday, June 21, 2019

“Brevity is the Soul of Wit”

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Yes I know, these last 2 posts have been long and complex - but that seems to have become the hallmark of this blog.  I’m surprised – if ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

The Anti-corruption Industry has been up a Gumtree

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My argument in this post is that the West made a major mistake 20 years ago when it encouraged the belief that ex-communist countries could...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Whatever happened to good governance and anti-corruption?

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Romania’s Presidency of the Council of the EU has come – and almost gone…It has not been the disaster many people predicted not least the P...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

The revolutionary english

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The Brits have a reputation for respecting tradition which is totally undeserved. The reality is that their government style (at least sinc...
Monday, June 3, 2019

blowing up departmental silos

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It was some 50 years ago when people first started to promise the “ end of bureaucracy ” but centralized control has been too seductive a n...