Monthly Archives: September 2017

Mr. Benedict Mander’s first paragraph is-what to call it? Mauricio Macri, Argentina’s president, has liberalised the country’s economy and opened it up to global trade and foreign investment. His government’s biggest task, though, is yet to come: it wants to … Continue reading →

Thank you for your comments on my post, much appreciated! My numbers shot up on both twitter and my blog.  Are you an internet rookie?  Because you have transgressed one of the first rules that almost all bourgeois ‘pundits’ observe: … Continue reading →

Mr.Collins, in your latest essay, present yourself as the ‘voice of reason’, the usual gambit of the propagandist/apologist, as opposed to the ‘political irrationalism’, indeed the Radical Political Romanticism of the Brexiteers i.e. British Gaullists! That last word really is … Continue reading →

Headline: Emmanuel Macron makes radical appeal for more powerful EU Sub-headline: French leader soft-pedals on eurozone reform in speech brimming with proposals https://www.ft.com/content/37c54ebc-a2ad-11e7-9e4f-7f5e6a7c98a2 Macron proclaims a Neo-Liberal New Deal? Jupertarian/Authoritarian politics as argued by the E.U.’s FDR? What of those tens … Continue reading →

Neo-Con David Brooks just can’t let go of the 1960’s. He was born in 1961, so he was 7 in 1968, the heyday of Abby Hoffman. As the protege of Wm. F. Buckley Jr., he just repeats the Buckley Hysterics … Continue reading →

Headline: Mélenchon plays old tunes to mobilize the opposition to Macron Sub-headline: The veteran leftist is leading the resistance to the president’s reform agenda The headline and sub-headline tell the story, but the reader can only marvel at Ms Chassany’s opening … Continue reading →

Never fear Mr. Luce’s lack of candor and failure to confront the Republican Party’s ‘rapprochement’ with racism, since Goldwater, and the exodus of the Dixiecrats from the Democratic Party, into the Republican Party:this after the passage of the Civil Rights … Continue reading →

Ms. Rana Foroohar opens her essay with an attack on a well practiced American tradition of public protest. If you feel you have been wronged, especially when it is by an institutionalized power, you take  your case to the Court … Continue reading →

‘Uber’ is NOT ‘a ride-hailing service‘! It is a Neo-Liberal scheme, to avoid the power of municipalities and states to regulate taxi services, in the public interest! TINA, as Mrs. Thatcher used to opine, is the position of this newspaper! … Continue reading →

Rich Lowry’s latest essay features the two villains of American Conservatism: ‘liberal analysts’ and the scourge of  ‘a valueless international relativism’! Mr. Lowry suffers from an advanced case of a self-serving ideological myopia, because those ‘liberal analysts’ are in fact … Continue reading →