Monthly Archives: March 2018

The readership of Andy Divine needn’t worry. He returns today ,in all his self-defensive verbosity: he wants to assure his readers that his beliefs about the natural inferiority of black people is scientifically based. He manages to sound the rhetoric … Continue reading →

Nothing can rescue Mr. Tim Harford’s jejune chatter,  as a pastiche of economic wisdom, but the Gallup’s annoyingly chirpy question goes a long way to explaining the utter trivialization of  the implied question in the headline : A monetary remedy … Continue reading →

According to Mr. Giles the law of cause and effect has somehow been annulled, as an @FT propagandist, he follows the Party Line with a few enhancements. Or should the reader call his extemporizing on, by now, shopworn  themes of … Continue reading →

Is it wrong to enjoy a few guilty moments of schadenfreude given this ‘news story’ by America’s New Hedda Hopper, Marlow Stern, at the Daily Beast journalistic shit -hole? The choice is limited as to models, Joyce Haber wasn’t obsessed with … Continue reading →

Mr. Stephens is an almost a canny propagandist! Its not that his comments on the UN’s unseemly waste, fraud and abuse couldn’t serve the purpose of an impetus for reform. But it isn’t that, but an effort to place his … Continue reading →

Should the reader take this as the battle-cry for Macron’s Jupertarian Revolution? “This government seems to be intent on tackling all the French sacred cows,” said Isabelle Mateos y Lago, global macro investment strategist in the BlackRock Investment Institute. “It’s … Continue reading →

As always Mr. Divine wreathes his latest essay in self-congratulation. He references an earlier comment that ‘sounded the alarm‘ about Trump in his self -description, using a Platonic lens. Just to make plain Plato’s own record of dubious political affiliation … Continue reading →

Reading Mr. Lewis’ essay of ‘appreciation‘ of Mr. Peterson’s ’12 Rules for Life’, the reader is struck by this observation. ‘Not since William Buckley threatened Gore Vidal has intellectual pugilism been so accessible to the masses.’ One is taken aback … Continue reading →

Where was Anne-Sylvaine Chassnay in 1968! Probably as yet un-born! The headline gives the FT game away. So does the utter irrelevance of the Neo-Liberal Hack Mr Cohn-Bendit ! He joins Negt and Kluge in joining the ‘establishment’? But as … Continue reading →

Even the Neo-Conservative Washington Post gives a more nuanced view of the current, and planned, 37 day rolling walkouts in France! Although that isn’t saying much, but when compared to the sketchy report at this newspaper, it is speaks loudly! … Continue reading →