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, August 8, 2025

The Chinese Mission

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Some 15 years ago I had a rather bad experience of China which I retold here . I had won the position of Team Leader of a 4 year EC project...

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Beautiful Books

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I’ve reached the stage when I have as many books in my virtual books (5000) as in my physical. Neagu Djuvara wa s a Romanian intellectual...

Monday, August 4, 2025

Desert Island Library

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This is a post I did all of 15 years ago - Paul Mason, one of the BBC economics correspondent (all of whom do excellent blogs), is running ...

Sunday, August 3, 2025

ARE ELITE THEORISTS CLOSET FASCISTS?

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Since university, I’ve had a fascination with elite theories espoused a hundred years ago by the Italians Gaetono Mosca, Vilfredo Pareto an...

Saturday, August 2, 2025

What British People Think

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A fascinating (and large) report published last week helps make sense of what seems to be the increased polarisation in western societies. S...

Friday, July 25, 2025

Free Speech

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I have already indicated that Yascha Mounk is someone I distrust – because of his serving as Tony Bliar’s Head of whatever he now calls his ...

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Democratic BackSliding?

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Thomas Fazi is an interesting German who has just produced an article How Western Democracy Died which reminded me of a couple of books whi...

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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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