Blog Policies, Categories & Tags

Principles

PatternsofPower.org writes about major events as they happen, averaging about one post a month.  These are detailed commentaries on specific cases, whereas the PatternsofPower books identify repeating patterns in the ways in which power is applied.  The two forms of analysis are complementary to each other.  Some blog posts are referenced in the books and some contain links to book sections.

Posts are listed on the website in reverse date sequence: the most recent first.

Updating posts

Some posts are updated, as further relevant information becomes available.  When this happens, care is taken to keep the new information separate from the original text and links are provided to copies of the original post in the website archive.

Categories

The website home page has a menu adjacent to each page, which allows previous blog posts to be retrieved by category.  The categories applicable to a post are shown above its text.  If readers click on a category name, the website will retrieve all other posts that are in the same category. These categories are hierarchical.

The current list of three categories, with their sub-categories, is as follows:

Politics:    American politics;   British politics;   China;    Europe;    geopolitics

Society:    climate change;    economics;   ethnic tensions;   human rights;   identity ;   immigration;   inequality;    law

Conflicts:  Middle East;   terrorism;    Ukraine

Tags

The tags applicable to each blog post are shown at the foot of the page.  If readers click on a tag name, the website will retrieve all other posts that have the same tag.  The current list of most-used tags is as follows:

austerity;    Bernie Sanders;    Boris Johnson;    Brexit;    Conservative Party;    conspiracy theories;    Coronavirus;    corruption;    Democratic Party;    dishonesty;    Donald Trump;    drones;    finance sector;    foreign policy;    free speech ;    gun control;    Iran;    Iraq;    irresponsibility;    ISIS;    Islamophobia;    Israel;    Joe Biden;    Keir Starmer;    Kenan Malik;    Labour Party;    laissez-faire ;    media reporting;    money in politics;    NATO;    neoliberalism;    NHS;    Nick Clegg;    Nigel Farage;    Obama;    OBR;    populism;    propaganda;    Republican Party;    Rishi Sunak ;    Russia;    separatism;    social media;    sovereignty;    Syria;    tax;    trade;    Turkey;    UN;    voter anger;