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 14, 2023

LAWLESS IN GAZA

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Eyeless in Gaza is a famous 1936 book written by Aldous Huxley about intellectuals in English society. The title is just a modernist trick ...
Thursday, October 12, 2023

The Importance of Context

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The outbreak of Israel-Hamas violence last weekend is one of these moments which compels a response – but not a knee-jerk one. A more contex...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

THE GREAT ACCELERATION

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A superb treat for my readers today... Peter Russell is, for my money, one of the most interesting writers about CHANGE – one of my favouri...
Monday, October 9, 2023

SHOWCASING THE YOUNGER HISTORIANS

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The UK discourages new entrants onto the political market and prefers to see the two main political parties slugging it out. Although there ...
Friday, October 6, 2023

The Labour Party’s Trajectory

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If there is one book I would recommend to people trying to understand the British Labour party, it is Interpreting the Labour Party ( 2003)...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

THE DECLINE OF POLITICAL PARTIES

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It was just over a decade ago that the (rare Coalition) government asked the British public whether they wanted to change the First Past th...
Sunday, October 1, 2023

An Inspiring but neglected UK Intellectual of the early 20thC

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It was Horia-Roman Patapeivici ‘s praise of the clarity of Harold Laski’s A grammar of politics (published in 1925) which set me off yeste...
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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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