Monthly Archives: November 2019

Headline: Michael Bloomberg: the magnate shaking up the 2020 election Sub-headline: Money on top of his success as New York’s mayor make a formidable candidate despite a late start https://www.ft.com/content/90cadb44-11eb-11ea-a7e6-62bf4f9e548a Should the reader look at the candidacy of Mr. Bloomberg as … Continue reading →

This screen shot of a Times report from November 29, 2019  The Times has finally caught up with one of its columnist:   The above from November 13, 2019 that links to this Economist interview of November 7, 2019. On … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh is a quick study, with all it attendant historical lacunae starkly evident.His collection of historical personages is tailored to impress a reader with his knowledge of American history, as his own.  Some book recommendations: the Gaddis biography of … Continue reading →

It shouldn’t surprise that Andy Divine shares a propinquity with Fiona Hill. Ms. Hill’s thesis adviser was the notorious Neo-Conservative Richard Pipes. So her Russophobia, bordering on paranoia, is comfortable political territory for Andy. The first paragraph of his essay … Continue reading →

If you’re in need of a mild chuckle today @JananGanesh @FT provides something that might meet your needs? This, for his audience of scriveners pretending to the status of Internet Boulevardiers. The pretentious is his métier. Allow me to itemise … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh opens his essay via ‘The Servant’ a movie, cineasts forgive my use of such an unsophisticated American term, just call me a provincial! The class animus in The Servant was meant to be peculiarly British.  Wasn’t this more about a … Continue reading →

It is getting very close to election day in Great Britain. Because so much is a stake, in this election, where can Mr. Freedland be? He’s the Blairite attack poodle who authored this from The Guardian of March 18, 2016 … Continue reading →

Macron s’annonce, déjà comme le leader de l’Europe! Où si Merkel? https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/11/07/emmanuel-macron-in-his-own-words-french L’économiste ultra réactionnaire agit “comme si” l’ascension de Macron à la direction de l’Union européenne est un “fait politique”! Macron récite tous les clichés, y compris celui de … Continue reading →

@tdal1moe Thank you for your comment. One of the reasons I came to read The Financial Times is that Chomsky recommended its reporting as more reliable. Iv’e been a reader since around 2007 and I’m inclined not to agree with … Continue reading →

This is like reading David Brooks, in The New York Times before he became a Political Prophet, and Self-Help Guru to divorced over 40 males, in his utterly pretentious ‘The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life‘: the places, … Continue reading →