Peripheral Vision

a celebration of intellectual trespassing by a retired "social scientist" as he tries to make sense of the world..... Gillian Tett puts it rather nicely in her 2021 book “Anthro-Vision” - “We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision”.

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Brexit SuperSaturday – and my role as your guide

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I blog for my own amusement and edification but readily confess to a thrill when the clicks soar to 750 which they did yesterday – presum...

Friday, October 18, 2019

while our attention was diverted.......

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We were all so focused on Brussels yesterday that we forgot to keep check on what was happening in Westminster where the government was de...

Johnson's Three Card Trick

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My Bulgarian, Portugese, Polish, Italian, Romanian, Russian and American readers will, I know, be waiting “ with bated breath ” for my re...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

On Writing Well

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“ The Road to Character ” was an unusual book for me – bought on impulse for a euro in one of the second-hand Bucharest bookshops which giv...

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Capitalism – what is it? Can it change for the better?

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If character traits are getting more inward and selfish, what does this mean for our ability to create a better future? The recent series...

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nomadron: Bran-Rucar corridor, Carpathian mountains..., Romania; Can be contacted at bakuron2003@yahoo.co.uk Political refugee from Thatcher's Britain (or rather Scotland) who has been on the move since 1991. First in central Europe - then from 1999 Central Asia and Caucasus. Working on EU projects - related to building capacity of local and central government. Home base is an old house in the Carpathian mountains

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