Monthly Archives: June 2024

Political Observer engages in some Political Archaeology. Headline: It’s risky, but Joe Biden needs to give way to someone who can beat Donald Trump Sub-headline: The president had one job: to prove he was strong enough to take on his … Continue reading →

Old Socialist’s selective quotation introduces the English Reader to this French nonpareil. Headline: ‘People hate you’: The French are increasingly rejecting Macron Sub-headline: The French president is omnipresent, despite having pledged to let his prime minister lead the campaign for … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments on the Institute for Fiscal Studies link. Freddy is probably not a reporter, nor a stringer, but a person who complies and edits the work of other, the less important contributors – he is the Oxbridger buffer … Continue reading →

Political Reporter comments. Editor: the first two paragraphs set the stage for this act of political shaming of Farage: for his lack of conformity to the received wisdom that Putin is the ‘author’ of the War in Ukraine. Its ‘as if’ 2014 and the … Continue reading →

Former Analysand offers a selective commentary! What is the Magic of Freud that sends his apologists, explicators, defenders and even his cadre of worshipers, to such dross? Here is George Prochnik in the TLS: The Reader is put directly within the early … Continue reading →

Political Observer offer a selection of quotations. There can be no doubt that Perry Anderson is the formidable Public Intellectual writing today! No one can match his body of work, he has no equal! Forget cadre of political sycophants, who … Continue reading →

Political Observer: its ‘as if’ the politically impotent Macron hadn’t called the snap election? JUN 18, 2024 @FT never surprises it’s readership Editor: a selection of words, phrases, sentences & possibly paragraphs in this diatribe. Note that it takes ‘three reporters’ … Continue reading →

Political Reporter surveys the political territory. Headline: Will a Labour victory solve the UK’s growth crisis?   Sub-headline; Replacing chaos with ‘dullness’ is intended to boost an economy growing at just 1.1% a year. But Keir Starmer might not be … Continue reading →

Political Observer reads and comments. Edward Fawcett was ‘formerly chief correspondent of The Economist’ that might lead The Reader to doubt his ability, to be an objective observer of the political scene, in both Britain and America? Because this is The Financial … Continue reading →

Political Observer wonders where that ‘left wing’ might be? Not at The Economist, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Spectator, The New Statesman.* The regular reader has to wince at Janan Ganesh’s latest political commentary, that now places him … Continue reading →