Monthly Archives: April 2016

Bagehot on the moral/political danger of Jeremy Corbyn, a comment by Almost Marx

Its April 30th 2016 and this has been published at Vox Political: titled Livingstone vindicated: There WAS a Nazi-Zionist agreement and Hitler DID support it published April 28, 2016 : http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/04/28/livingstone-vindicated-there-was-a-nazi-zionist-agreement-and-hitler-did-support-it/ ‘It turns out all those who clamoured for Ken … Continue reading

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Jacob Weisberg to Bernie: Surrender!

In sum, Jacob Weisberg argues the case for Clinton as her supporters have argued it: Bernie has lost and it is now time for him to step aside gracefully and cede to Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Weisberg extemporizes on the theme … Continue reading

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Alan Johnson: ‘Jeremy Corbyn is incapable of tackling Labour’s anti-Semitism problem’: a comment by Political Observer

  Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom and a senior fellow at BICOM, Britain Israel Communications & Research Center: ‘BICOM, the Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre, is an independent research centre producing research and analysis about Israel and … Continue reading

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@TinaBrownLM, I’m in mourning! A letter from Myra B.

Dearest Tina, Evey time I go to the Daily Beast site two things happen, first I miss your deft editorial hand, expressed in the now long disposed of commentary on the Royals, and then I read the bellicose chatter of … Continue reading

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Bernie Quigley: ‘Obama’s Brexit Hypocrisy Squanders ‘Anglosphere’ Moment A new U.S. president might see a chance to engage the world with fresh thinking’? A comment by Political Reporter

Mr. Quigley doesn’t quite write his essay, but stitches it together not with the aid of Mr. Stephens’ opinion pieces, but lets Mr. Stephens do the actual work. Stephens  and his fellow pundits are following the Financial Times Party Line … Continue reading

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Douthat’s Necromancy or Tenured Radicals redux with the help of Shields &Dunn. A comment by Myra B.

If Mr. Douthat isn’t busy fussing/ fuming about the out of wedlock birth rate or just generally poking his nose into the unsupervised uterus’ of American women- I know! His penchant for patrolling the American female body and it’s morally … Continue reading

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Janen Ganesh inhabits the Ben Fong-Torres of Rolling Stone circa 1972

Now think back: Ben Fong-Torres in Rolling Stone circa 1972, writing about The Stones or that infamous Grateful Dead Air Cal Flight from San Francisco to L.A., where Jerry Garcia passed around a Bowie knife, with lines of cocaine on … Continue reading

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Strobe Talbott, the last of The Wasp Elite, and Old and New Cold Warrior, Opines on the Brexit

The Panic of The Elites is in answer to The Rebellion Against The Elites. That Rebellion has been a political mainstay of the Financial Times for some months, to explain the rise of a subversive Populism of both Left and … Continue reading

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Philip Stephens on the Brexiteers, a comment by Political Reporter

Never fear you are at The Financial Times. The proof is Mr. Stephens opening paragraph larded with a list of the current political cliches, of the failed utopianism, of a codified Neo-Liberalism, while pointing the finger of accusation at all … Continue reading

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Almost Marx on Janan Ganesh & Brexit debate

It is something that may animate the citizens of great powers or nations with raw memories of humiliation, but our benign history and retirement from the top table make us different. To keep tracking our place in the food chain … Continue reading

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