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Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 5

28th February 2021 1642again 0

The Corcyran Stasis as a Template for Civil Strife and War While one might characterise the main theme of Thucydides’ work to be the gradual breakdown of Athens, its constitution, character, morality and eventually its [more…]

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Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 4

21st February 2021 1642again 0

The Battle of Sphakteria and the Athenian Expedition to Sicily These two battles stand out in a book full of military engagements because of the dramatic nature of the language employed by the author, that [more…]

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Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 3

14th February 2021 1642again 0

The Ruinous Logic of Empire – The Mytilenian Debates and Melian Dialogue These two episodes in Thucydides’ account of the war seem to fit together, firstly the Mytilenian Debates in the Athenians Assembly in 427 [more…]

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Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 2

7th February 2021 1642again 0

Pericles’ Funeral Oration and the Great Plague of Athens In Part 1 of this series of articles about what is widely regarded as the greatest surviving piece of ancient historical writing, I tried to sketch [more…]

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Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 1

17th January 2021 1642again 0

I have long wanted to write about Thucydides, widely regarded as the greatest historian of the ancient world and, as far as we know, only the second of the discipline after Herodotus’ account of the [more…]

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Turnaround – Turning Around Failing Companies or Organisations

7th December 2020 1642again 0

The Covid panic/lockdown disaster has confronted many businesses and other organisations throughout the UK with an existential challenge.  A long dark winter of spreading and harsher lockdowns is crushing large numbers already and others will [more…]

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Book Review: The Throwback by Tom Sharpe

27th April 2020 1642again 0

Some books can influence the way we view the world, perhaps we read them at a particularly impressionable time in our lives. Perhaps when we are young or going through some form of major crisis [more…]

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The Business Cash Flow Cycle & the Current Economic Heart Attack

31st March 2020 1642again 0

By chance and then a modicum of success, I ended up with a career helping companies going through times of change, needing a new strategy, or in crisis.   I’ve worked in hospitality, wholesale, IT and [more…]

Arts

Lent & the 40 Days in the Old and New Testaments

22nd March 2020 1642again 0

In continuing my series of articles on the striking consistencies of theme and message within the Old and New Testaments, it seems apt not to discuss Lent and Jesus’ Forty Days in the Wilderness which [more…]

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