Monthly Archives: October 2021

The Show Trial of Kristalina Georgieva continues, in pages of The Financial Times.

Political Cynic comments on this unfolding Political Melodrama! ‘The Show Trial’ of Georgieva continues in this newspaper. Yet even Luce’s Bill of Attainder lost what political force, it might have had, in its last two paragraphs. But what The Hegemon, America, wants … Continue reading

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Edward Luce on ‘the crimes’ of Kristalina Georgieva, or much ado about nothing?

Radical Socialist comments… Read just the first two paragraphs of Luce’s essay, or should it be referred to as his wan Bill of Attainder, against Kristalina Georgieva? Kristalina Georgieva’s alleged sins may look trifling to some. The IMF’s managing director … Continue reading

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The New Cold War, episode MDXIII: The Financial Times on the ‘expulsion of 8 Russians for spying’.

Almost Marx scoffs! Headline: Nato expels 8 Russians for spying Sub-headline: Maximum size of Moscow delegation to Brussels headquarters halved as east-west relations deteriorate https://www.ft.com/content/a3c24aea-8db8-44ad-bbc4-6acbb77a93da The New Cold War reaches one of its many denouements! NATO had once outlived its … Continue reading

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Bret Stephens & ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’: A Counter Factual Rewrite!

Political Cynic’s thought experiment. If Bret Stephens had appeared in ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’, book by Laura Z. Hobson, screen play by Moss Heart, and an uncredited revision by Elia Kazan, he would have appeared as one of a collection of bigots , both … Continue reading

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Christopher Caldwell’s funeral oration & memory lapse, regarding the Enlightened Rule of Angela Merkel, in the New York Times.

Political Observer scoffs! Here are the opening paragraphs of Mr. Caldwell’s funeral oration for the Enlightened Merkel Rule: The drubbing inflicted on Germany’s Christian Democratic Union in the country’s recent elections is a sign that, alongside Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 16-year … Continue reading

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A Thatcherite adrift in the 21st Century: @RColvile in the London Times of 10/03/21.

Old Socialist offers some selected paragraphs. Note the collection of Topic Sentences, carefully brought to vivid life by our Adrift Thatcherite … On Inter-connectedness : The past two years have taught us a brutal lesson in how interconnected the modern … Continue reading

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Thomas Chatterton Williams interviewed in The Financial Times.

Political Observer comments on the ‘political transcendentalist’. This newspaper employs one of the most interesting writers and political commentators, of the political present, in Janan Ganesh! I read many different publications on the internet, I spend my days reading! Conduct … Continue reading

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