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”.

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Thank God for the Social Media

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Twitter, in particular, has been losing a large section of its customers due to the idiocy of its owner – in anticipation of its eventual de...

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

The Expandable Book

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One of my favourite television watching is Seinfeld which ran for almost a decade from its 1989 start and has 180 episodes . One of them ha...

Monday, October 21, 2024

Down the Sewers with Right-Wing writers

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They say that we should get out of our “bubbles” and be open to alternative voices. And the BBC certainly these days gives access to the ent...

Sunday, October 20, 2024

Ructions about the latest Nobel Economics prize

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The latest Nobel prize for Economics (actually only a Swedish bank award ) is causing ructions. It has been won by Daren Acemoglu, Simon Joh...

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Why is the English Establishment so Zionist?

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The good news is that an Employment Tribunal has upheld Professor David Miller’s plea of unfair dismissal against Bristol University on the ...

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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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