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, December 17, 2025

More Reading about Socialism

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Four more to whet your appetite -  Towards Socialism ed Perry Anderson and Robin Blackburn (NLR 1965 ) An amazing collection of essays fro...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

More Leftist Tracts

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I seem to be unable to stop posting about the books attempting to understand where the left has gone wrong. For the moment let me mention th...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Another Post on..Style

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Following on from an earlier post about STYLE , I realised I had omitted an important book Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters ...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

More Leftist Stuff

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Four books up for review today – with the second being my favourite The Socialist Challenge Today Leo Pani tc h and Sam Gindin ( 2018 ) A...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Continuing the series on the Left

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After my brief foray into styles of writing, let me continue my series on the future of the left. Jeremy Gilbert and Hilary Wainwright are ...
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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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