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, September 15, 2025

Political Scientists Don't Understand the Public

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One of my favourite writers is economist Branko Milanovic who has an interesting post about a conference he attended recently on the theme o...

Friday, September 5, 2025

What’s Wrong with Britain?

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In the early 1960s, Penguin had a series of books under the general title “ What’s wrong with Britain ” which focused on its institutional f...

Saturday, August 30, 2025

Why Don’t We Revolt More Often?

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I posted on this a couple of months ago but let me return to the question – with a rather fuller set of suggested reading. It is, of course...

Monday, August 25, 2025

Memoirs et al

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I continue to add memoirs (and correspondence) to the collection I’m developing. The latest to catch my attention is Robert Reich’ s Coming ...

Sunday, August 24, 2025

A Resource on AI

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I’m not a great fan of articles on Artificial Intelligence (AI) – although I’ve dipped into Nexus – a brief history of networks from the sto...

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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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