Wednesday, November 30, 2022

A glimpse of my selection process – a typical week’s Links

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A s I approach the 100 th post of the year, I thought it might be interesting for my readers to get a sense of how I identify topics for ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

The British Malaise – a 40 year case-study of neoliberalism

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The last post made the rather tongue-in-cheek suggest ion that my failure to include psychology in a list of intellectual disciplines was a...
Sunday, November 27, 2022

Ignoring Psychology

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I' ve just finished " T he Act of Living – what the great psychologists can teach us about surviving discomfort in an Age of Anxie...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Facing the End of my Romanian journey

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I’ve been engrossed these past few days in a book about Romania called Children of the Night – th e strange and epic story of modern Romani...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

The F word again

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One of the rarer of blogging pleasures is, for me at any rate, provoking a reader to write a comment. Apart from family and friends, I have ...
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Sunday, November 13, 2022

Paul Mason on Fascism

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I’m one of these snobs who has disliked the casual ease with which people have tossed off the “fascist” epithet. And I’ve turned my nose up ...
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Monday, November 7, 2022

On not succumbing to fatalism

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We’re told these days that it’s virtually impossible to change people’s minds – that we all suffer from “confirmation bias” viz screening ou...
Monday, October 31, 2022

This Too will Pass – patterns of decline

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The beauty of doing a series of posts is that it gives you a chance to consider them with a critical eye – with what we might call “ periphe...