Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Cultural Values ...again

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When I started, some 40 years ago, to move in European circles, I was stunned to realise that words and concepts had such different meaning...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Is the UK becoming a failed State?

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How quickly a country can collapse – socially and economically. Lebanon and Sri Lanka are the latest examples. Mark Blyth is a political...
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Saturday, August 20, 2022

Confused about Political Cultures?

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It’s more than 40 years since I noticed that concepts have different meanings in other languages. It’s as if each nation carries its distinc...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

The UK finally goes off its head

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It is normally France we associate with public protest – tractors clogging the streets and protestors tearing up cobbles. But, for once, i...
Monday, August 8, 2022

Why the polarisation - and what can be done about it?

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 “ Polarisation”, we are told, has become the predominant feature of contemporary societies. I want to explore why this issue has arisen in ...
Monday, August 1, 2022

Out of Control?

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With growing inequality, the Ukraine War, the heat waves, the energy shortages and raging inflation, we can be forgiven for believing that t...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Reform – and the neglect of context

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Today’s highlight was a fascinating story by a Peruvian of how local technocrats – trained at US universities – returned to Peru to peddle s...
Monday, July 25, 2022

US vanity

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This blog does not pretend to be familiar with military strategy but, ever since Vietnam, I have doubted US claims to military supremacy. It...