Monthly Archives: May 2017

‘The Big Read’? David J Lynch and Sam Fleming do a workman like job of reportage. Or more accurately, produce more of the same low grade political melodrama the reader of The Financial Times has come to expect. That features … Continue reading →

Comey may have made mistakes; he may have had a Messiah complex; he may go down in history as a self-righteous prick who interfered in an election. But he is obviously and transparently independent — the key criterion for any … Continue reading →

Headline: Donald Trump fires FBI director James Comey Sub-headline: Washington stunned by dismissal carried out as bureau probes campaign ties to Russia The latest episode in the New Cold War Melodrama is the firing of FBI Director James Comey by … Continue reading →

Macron is a Thatcherite with a Public Relations Makeover: all earnest young ‘Reformer’ that will lead France into the bright Neo-Liberal Future. He is not the Speed & Shock of Fillon, but the expression of the ‘Hope & Change’ of … Continue reading →

Mr. Rachman’s political desperation is showing to an arresting degree. With his rhetorical frame being  John Maynard Keynes’ open letter to Franklin Roosevelt, after FDR won the 1933 election: “You have made yourself the Trustee for those in every country … Continue reading →

The reader of Mr. Luce’s long essay is first confronted by the Cold War Triumphalism of the fall of the Berlin Wall,  as he and his mates speed toward the Wall in a 18 hour road trip, to be a … Continue reading →

Let Neo-Liberal Lite Golden Boy govern i.e. try to pass ‘reform’! Macron, a man without a Party: Speed & Shock Fillon will say it is a betrayal of his iteration of Thatcherism à la Française, perhaps from a jail cell?  … Continue reading →

May 3,2017 Headline: Le Pen harries Macron in hostile French presidential debate Sub-headline: Centrist favourite keeps cool in the face of bitter onslaught as election run-off looms https://www.ft.com/content/c1875fe6-3052-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a May 4, 2017 Headline: Macron emerges as clear winner of angry French … Continue reading →

I’m currently reading Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence by Francois Duchene. I’ve reached page eighty in which Monnet complains, that in his estimation, his allies in the War effort lack a ‘federalist vision’. The larger vision of a … Continue reading →

The completely disingenuous character of Mr. Bret Stephens comparison of Robby Mook’s imagined assertion that  ‘The data run counter to your anecdotes’ as central to the fact that Mrs. Clinton would win, as a matter of a belief based on … Continue reading →