Monthly Archives: April 2024

Political Cynic comments. It’s always a revelation, of a kind, to read Mr. Ganesh History Made to Measure that places the 14 year Tory Rule as preferable, to the New Labour of ‘Corbyn Slayer’, and Labour Friends of Israel apologist Kier Starmer, as somehow … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader engages is some revelatory Political Archelogy. Mr. Sunstein latest political intervention on behalf of another Academic/Technocrat should not surprise. Daniel Kahneman represents the virtue of seeking ‘a consensus’ of a kind, with his critics in an Academic World, consonant with … Continue reading →

Political Cynic on a revelatory portion of Jonathan Guyer’s political encyclical. … In a Box With Biden Unless President Biden is willing to kick down the sides of the box—checking his own assumptions about Israel, facing down the realities of … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader can almost embrace his practice? Opinion: Geopolitics Europe’s leaders have woken up to hard power It isn’t clear that their electorates have done the same https://www.ft.com/content/42a4531a-d50a-46f0-9a23-076c03b0da31 Mr. Ganesh as boulevardier loves to tease his readership! The first two … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader & Political Cynic Headline: Ukraine, Gaza and the rise of identity geopolitics Sub-headline: The global conscience moves in mysterious ways https://www.ft.com/content/c9173148-22d9-444b-8a8c-b14585a7db26 Rachman sets the stage: Early in the Gaza conflict, a TikTok video of John Kirby went viral. … Continue reading →

Political Observer. MAR 26, 2024 Well-connected in academia, business and government, John Maynard Keynes was one of the most influential economic theorists of the twentieth century. It appears that his theories will be just as important for the twenty-first. As … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader Adam RobertsDigital editor Hello from London, What consequences might flow from Friday’s terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow? Even—or especially—for an autocrat who just won a sham election, there is a risk of looking weak or wrong-footed after … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. Mr. Brook’s 3,248 word apologetic for Israel, and its American sponsor does not include the word Genocide. Neo-Conservatives as followers of Leo Strauss, engage in the habit of drowning the reader in words and paragraphs, steeped in verbosity … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. The Economist offers ‘the most likely culprit’ & ‘But there is no shortage of other potential suspects’ framed in the final three paragraphs of it’s ‘news story’. … Who might have been behind the attack? The claim, and American officials’ … Continue reading →