Political theory and practice

Here is the PowerPoint file on Leaders, leadership, and us. It is a link to You_Tube.

Best wishes.
Michael Jackson
Government and International Relations

This is a place for graduates to get in touch with each other. When the blackboard unit of study web site ends, students can shift to this one. When I have occasion to contact graduates I will ask them to visit this blog and leave a comment. Open this post and you may find yourself pictured.

This post is for those who completed GOVT6301.

If they wish to maintain a dialogue with each other, they may do so by posting to this entry. I offer it as a service in reaction to comments about missing the opportunity to engage with each other when the unit ends. If it is used, I will leave it. If not, I will delete it.

Please note that the blog is published and anyone can read it.

A statement of welcome and best wishes to students starting Government in 2009.

A few words of greeting and orientation for students new to Government and International Relations. Click the link to You Tube and have a look.

Some words of congratulations to those who have completed IVth honours in 2008.

Bleaders are in luck. I am working on some more material for the enlightenment and edification for the discerning multitude who read this blog. I have made a fieldtrip to places utopian and I shall be reporting on some of that. Book mark this page! Check it next week, and repeatedly thereafter.

Three continuing, entry level positions for lecturers in political science.

I took a picture of the plaque outside the Utopian Café in Plaka on Melos with the idea that I would decipher later, at my desk. Here I am but I cannot decipher it so I am asking bleaders to help. What does it all mean?

Post your suggestions with this item please. My thanks to those that pause to have a look.

A video from the real Michael Jackson

A revised version with a few more features.

Click and all shall be revealed.

Best wishes to one and all. Click on the camera or arrow below to see all.

The odds and ends.

Vote early, vote often!

All I ever wanted to know about numismatics and was afraid to ask.

Quick! What is the difference between The Museum of Traditional Pottery and the Traditional Pottery Collection?

The Benaki Museum sets a standard in every respect.

Further questions or comments may be posted here.

And it is Rosé!

Blogs I read.

Who is the best Poirot? This question came up on Facebook, and I naturally took to the keyboard to answer. See below for further enlightenment. Facebook had a great many expressions of opinion on this question, and I am glad to see that. However, that is all they were. Blurted opinions. Below I start an argument with some criteria.

The Stelvin top is here to stay, and hooray, I say, to that!

The Wikipedia needs help on rosé, and I am just the guy who can do it!

I found more rosés than I had time to drink at Dean and De Lucca’s in Georgetown. I vowed to return as soon as possible, Reader, to pursue knowledge for you.

Dedicated as I am, I have also dared to try some “wines” that remind me that there are limits to my search for knowledge on your behalf, Reader.

Is it cherry, strawberry, water melon, ruby grapefruit, or raspberry? Moi, je prefere raspberry.

Wait! I hear the pedants among you, as is to be expected, quibbling.

In 2006 I gave myself an OOPS award.

I had an inquiry from a research centre on campus about the use of the blog for teaching and research.

Over the years I have accumulated mementoes from students.

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