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”.

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

The Natives are Restless… again

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For more than 60 years it has been evident that something was profoundly wrong with British society – a series of reports, official and unof...

Monday, July 14, 2025

The Latest Thinking on reforming Government systems

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Most suggestions for reform come from Think Tanks and are incremental in spirit. The rare exceptions are those from NESTA such as Radical Vi...

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Making Sense of the Nazi period

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In a few days will see the centenary of Mein Kampf ’ s publication by Adolf Hitler who managed to publish it on July 18 th 1925 after he’...

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

The Nazi Mind

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After my effort to make sense of the Trump mind, it seems appropriate to follow up with a just published book by the British historian L aur...

Monday, July 7, 2025

On Not Resisting the Temptation to write about Trump

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I had been wanting to write something about anarchism – or Lawrence Ree’s most recent book “The Nazi Mind” or even a post about “contextual ...

Thursday, July 3, 2025

Who’s Afraid of Dying?

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I last addressed this issue some 5 years ago with a n annotated post of 21 books which started with Jessica Mitford’s book of 1963 which s...

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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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