Sunday, November 26, 2023

Ivan Illich

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Ivan Illich had a strange but profound influence on me in my early 30s and I’ve just downloaded a couple of books to help me understand his ...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

English Voices

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Last night I watched a documentary about Brexit which my favourite newspaper – Byline Times – had commissioned. It was fairly grim viewing ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Can we penetrate anyone’s Soul?

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In the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine I penned, in a sort of protest, a celebration of life consisting of a list of autobiog...
Sunday, November 12, 2023

Why are we so indifferent to Inequality?

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It was Michael Robert’s post on Branko Milanovic’s latest book – “ Visions of Inequality – from the French Revolution to the end of the Cold...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION?

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I’m encouraged by positive feedback on my last post to venture further into the nature of the continuing confusions about the respective rol...
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Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Does the UK deserve its increasing reputation as a “Failed State”?

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I’d no sooner put up the previous post about the internecine slanging matches going on within the UK government amongst scientific and polit...
Monday, November 6, 2023

No, Minister!

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T he whole world knows the “Yes, Minister” series which was shown on BBC from 1980-84 and much appreciated by Margaret Thatcher for the way...
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