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, October 9, 2022

Types of Change

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When we talk about change, we’re really exploring, firstly, our perception of change and, second, the stories we tell to make sense of it. ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

From the Stable State to total Disruption?

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We live in chaotic times and I have been trying in recent weeks to map how various authors have tred to make sense for us of the changes whi...
Friday, September 23, 2022

The UK slides to a new Nadir

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With the UK pound now in free-fall, the Minister of Finance, with a name that sounds like a suicide pilot, has announced huge tax advantages...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Reflections on...CHANGE

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A couple of decades ago I did an annotated bibliography for change agents which you can still access. I have just put up a rather different...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

A Bad Start for a new King

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Charles III has been in authority over us for some 24 hours and has already succeeded in making me very angry – on 3 counts. By craf...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Is this Class War?

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Boris Johnson has gone – for the moment at least His replacement is the current Foreign Secretary Lizz Truss, a loyal follower who has rem...
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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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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