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 28, 2025

MORONIC INFERNO

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Such was how Martin Amis saw the US in a collection of his essays he released in 2009. I have been trying this past year to put the finishi...

Saturday, February 1, 2025

What is Techno-Feudalism?

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Yanis Varoufakis is not only a political activist I greatly admire – he has also a superb command of the English language to which he owes n...

Monday, January 20, 2025

British LIES - again

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We can no longer believe anything which comes from the UK Establishment. The Metropolitan police force epitomises all that is rotten in that...

Monday, January 6, 2025

Ways of Seeing

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Almost 3 weeks since I last posted - I just haven’t been in the mood although I did want to recognise the sad passing of Charles Handy th...

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Romanian Rhetoric

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Romania is part of southern Europe and shares some the features we’ve come to associate with that part of the world – namely religiousity, ...

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Romania is no longer a democracy

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Romania has shot into the news this past week with the announcement on 6 December by its Constitutional Court that it was annulling the Pres...

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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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