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”.

Monday, May 27, 2024

ScotRail needs to pull its socks up!

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ScotRail is one of the few privatised companies to be brought back, after 25 years, into public ownership – a measure supported by at leas...

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

THE LOCAL STATE and the new municipalism

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I have been trying to interest an academic journal in publishing an article about the development and management of a local political strat...

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

BLOGPOST DESTROYS MY POSTS YET AGAIN

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My apologies for the text interfering with the right-hand column of the last post. THere's nothing I can do to deal with this!!

THE DECLINE OF STATE CAPACITY

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Recent posts from Aurelien and Dominic Cummings on this coincided with this more positive post from Paul Cairney about a new vision for UK...

Thursday, May 2, 2024

LEVELLING UP

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Paul Collier is an Establishment economist who delivered this lecture in 2022 which is well worth viewing in its entirety and nudged me to ...

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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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