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”.

Friday, February 9, 2024

SNIPPETS

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1. Down with Centrists I have just u nsubscrib ed from ”The Rest is P olitics” podcast which has consistently been voted the number one p...

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Sunday, February 4, 2024

Travails of Socialism

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Britain, it seems, is so cautious, conservative and class-ridden a country that it has taken a hundred years for it to come to terms with ...

Thursday, February 1, 2024

John Pilger RIP

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I have to confess, to my shame, that I had mixed feelings about John Pilger, the great investigative journalist who died at the age of 84 d...

Saturday, January 27, 2024

Post-Modernity, Anyone??

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The 1960s was a critical period for Europe. My generation left the austerity of the postwar years behind and tasted freedom - not just in th...

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Rabbie Burns

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January 25th see s Scots all over the world coming together to celebrate the Scottish values we’ve long seen as embodied in the life of o...

Sunday, January 21, 2024

WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

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The last post suggested that too many books simply regurgitated what most of us already know about the economic system and that what is n...

Friday, January 19, 2024

WHY DO SO MANY NEW TITLES WASTE OUR TIME?

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“Silent Coup”, “The Big Myth”, “Rentier Capitalism”…are titles of some of the books which have hit us in recent years. People keep churning ...

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nomadron: 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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