Monthly Archives: June 2017

https://www.ft.com/content/b29f5260-529c-11e7-a1f2-db19572361bb?hubRefSrc=email&utm_source=lfemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=lfnotification#lf-content=199904431:703885100 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..   ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Law and order said: Your comment has been removed, but let me reply to it: Mr. Corbyn has been re-elected how many times? His political career began in the 1970’s, so he must have been of … Continue reading →

The headline above Mr. Stephens June 9, 2017 essay is ‘The Year of Voting Recklessly’ that purports to be a comment on elections in Britain, America and France. There is the usual political chatter, none of it outside the bourgeois … Continue reading →

The Financial Times has found the near perfect apologist for ‘Austerity’! A reading of the Wikipedia entry on Nicholas Ian Macpherson, Baron Macpherson of Earl’s Court, is impressive, to say the least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Macpherson In the wake of the utterly failed Neo-Liberal … Continue reading →

Wolfgang Kowalsky maladroit attempt to lay the blame for the current political unrest and dissatisfaction: Populism of both Left and Right, as the product of the Prophets of French Theory, who were advocates of  a toxic ‘relativism’ expresses political desperation. … Continue reading →

Are the Jupitarian Politics of President Macron about to hit a shoal of his own making? Protectionism in the name of National Security. The mantra of the EU Cartel has always been ‘Free Trade’ but what to do with those … Continue reading →

The first part of this paragraph is predicated upon the fiction that the rise of Thatcher/Reagan set two Western Economies on the right track : away from the Post War Welfare State, toward a Utopia predicated upon the the Free … Continue reading →

The reader just has to laugh at the assertions that M. Macron makes in the first paragraph of  Anne-Sylvaine Chassany essay! Emmanuel Macron’s decision to open up Louis XIV’s palace in Versailles for Russia’s Vladimir Putin at the end of … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh begins his latest essay with the sentence: Emmanuel Macron can now expect control of the French parliament to go with the presidency he clinched last month. Mr. Ganesh is too practiced, too glib an apologist for the benighted … Continue reading →

The political present and the immediate future look bleak for the Mrs. May, her only allies being those Northern Ireland political romantics, who think they can turn back time, and their belief in the benighted erosions that rule the modern … Continue reading →

The mildly curious reader need only read your own description of  Mr. Palmer’s associations to realize exactly who he is in terms of the European Union: About John Palmer John Palmer was the European Editor of The Guardian and then … Continue reading →