Monthly Archives: April 2021

Read the first two paragraphs of Andy’s regular political gossip column : in this episode, Andy takes the rhetorical guise of a Thatcherite Miss Lonelyhearts:  History can be funny sometimes, can’t it? And if a slight smile didn’t cross your … Continue reading →

 ‘Finance minister emphasises that US administration is ‘very collaborative’ on vaccines’ Does this describe the ‘very collaborativeness’ : Headline: Vaccine makers say IP waiver could hand technology to China and Russia Sub-headline: Proposal to suspend patent rights comes as poorer countries struggle … Continue reading →

The reader just has to look at a map to see that The Solid South, except for the four smallest states, is controlled by Republicans, and that the leadership of the Senate Republicans has been Mitch McConnell since 2007, a … Continue reading →

Should a Larry Summers Neo-Liberal cast aspersions on the champion of ‘aggrieved white conservatism’ and an almost argued ‘ideal pluto-populist’, who also is a possible presidential candidate? This has the stale aroma of Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent series of novels, with a … Continue reading →

Instead of covering the weekly instalment of The Rebellion Against The Elites, that takes place in France every Saturday across the country, is unreported in The Financial Times -in another time and place this was called ‘managed news’! What appeals … Continue reading →

Au lieu de couvrir la tranche hebdomadaire de The Rebellion Against The Elites, qui a lieu en France tous les samedis à travers le pays, n’est pas rapportée dans le Financial Times – à une autre époque et en un … Continue reading →

In America two genres of popular culture are, and have been, in the ascendent , since the 1930’s and 1940’s , Pulp and the Comic Book. Why start here? James Ferguson provides the cartoon reductionism of the argued conflict between … Continue reading →

What might History teach about the failed interventions of the British and the Soviet Union and their wars in Afghanistan? Not to speak of America’s support for the Mujahideen and  Osama bin Laden?   The two most conservative/reactionary Western newspapers, are … Continue reading →

From January 21, 2021 in The Economist: Under the rubric of ‘Fire without fury’ Headline: Will Joe Biden’s fiscal stimulus overheat the American economy? Sub-headline: If it does, higher inflation could be the consequence On january 20th Joe Biden entered the … Continue reading →

The first paragraph reads like a weak but modulated defense of the Royals, in a History Made To Measure of their victimhood, at the hands of democratising forces: malign political actors, catastrophic events, all cobbled together to impress the reader … Continue reading →