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I am an anarchist

2014; Royal College of General Practitioners; Volume: 64; Issue: 621 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3399/bjgp14x679471

1478-5242

Paul Robinson,

Health Sciences Research and Education

Twenty years ago, when I was a fledgling GP course organiser, one of my colleagues in the Deanery was a self-proclaimed ‘anarchist’. At that time my understanding of the term anarchist was in conflict with my understanding of the role of a senior educator in a bureaucratic organisation that oversaw a statutory process. My colleague performed that role well and I thought her claim to anarchy was merely striking a pose. Now I am reviewing that opinion. The musicians from Chumbawamba, who disbanded in 2012 after 30 years together, are anarchists. That is not to say that their music is disorganised or chaotic, as I would once have expected. Quite the reverse: their playing is as harmonious, tuneful and rhythmically together as any. …