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, April 13, 2024

THE RULING CLASS and the STATE

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The “ deep state ” has become, in recent years, a common term and the last post wondered whether it could actually applied to the UK – with ...
Friday, April 12, 2024

DOES “THE DEEP STATE” EXIST?

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A recent post explored whether the US notion of the deep state makes any sense in the UK – and comes up with a broadly negative answer. It ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

In Praise of the Bibliographical Essay

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Readers are aware of the rather eccentric stress this blog puts on the importance  of books having annotated bibliographies . Penguin have j...
Sunday, March 31, 2024

British "Justice"

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  The British public is so appalled at the Israeli genocide going on in Gaza that it has failed to spot the latest negation by the UK Estab...
Friday, March 29, 2024

Miniaturising

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In recent years, I’ve taken to creating tables in an effort to summarise the key points of some posts. But BLOGSPOT, the server I use, is no...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

How can the US be so stupid?

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C ompletely coincidentally, after yesterday’s post, Youtube took me to a fascinating discussion about how post-1968 developments had helped...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

PROJECT 2025

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One of the bloggers I most respect is indi.ca - a writer called Indrajit Samarajiva, born in Canada, raised in America and now liv ing in...
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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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