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”.

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Whatever happened to political psychology?

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My last – unusually short - post ended with a question about the curious psychology we seem to be applying to the Russian elite living in it...

Friday, March 11, 2022

A thought

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The Russian military has so far killed more civilians than Ukraine soldiers but its campaign has bogged down – particularly in the north. An...

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Notes about the War on our Doorsteps

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The murderous destruction of hospitals by Russian missiles is the latest horror to be added to the wider attacks on civilians and the stream...

Monday, March 7, 2022

The New Certainties

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Strange how we can at one and the same time deplore the “bubbles” in which people operate and yet, unthinkingly, demonstrate groupthink in o...

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

The Ukraine War

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Romanian television is full of images of refugees crossing from Ukraine into Romania from its northern border – some of them Romanian-spea...

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Monday, February 28, 2022

Documents for the End Times?

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Two documents came into my hands this weekend – both with “Agenda” in the title. The first, fresh from the press, was “ The New Agenda ” (Ja...

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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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