Monthly Archives: March 2025

@NSegaunes doesn’t just write of the retirement of Alexis Kohler, but in her own melodramatic way kisses Macron’s Ring.

American Reader comments on Le Monde’s ‘Political Centrism’ as ‘Neo-Liberal Apologetics’ ! Editor: A brief preamble: The Reader needs to approach with caution Nathalie Segaunes essay! With the Trump/Vance meeting with Zelensky, that signaled the not quite end of American … Continue reading

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@andrewmarr9 solidifies the notion that The New Statesman motto of ‘New Times, New Thinking’ betreys the Tradition of Sidney and Beatrice Webb & others!

Newspaper Reader is un-surprised. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 27, 2025 Headline: Keir Starmer finally has a vision for Britain Sub-headline: Energised by international events, the Prime Minister has defined his ideas for the state. Editor: The Reader can’t be surprised by this … Continue reading

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Kier Starmer and Rachel Reeves : From the 22 Billion overspend, to the BBC’s £9.5bn.

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 26, 2025 Pensioners without heat are not the only problem that Kier Starmer and Rachel Reeves face, besides that utterky anemic 1% growth rate! And the argued 22 billion over-spend that is left beind, and … Continue reading

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Michael Lind on Richard Nixon, Donald Trump & a Possible Future?

Newspaper Reader chatters while ‘The West’ … stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 25, 2025 Headline: Michael Lind: Trump represents a nationalist tradition that goes back to Nixon’ Sub-headline: Despite his inconsistencies, the American president has always criticized free trade and the American military … Continue reading

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Robert Colvile regurgitates @bariweiss column of March 18, 2025!

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 23, 2025 Headline: Abundance is the new buzzword on the US left. Now it’s coming here Sub-headline : The US left’s focus on redistribution is failing. A new approach, emphasising economic growth, is gaining traction … Continue reading

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Pierre Wunsch Governor of the National Bank of Belgium & Le Monde’s Eric Albert Re-Imagine a possible Europe, without the guiding hand of America?

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 19, 2025 Headline: ‘Europeans are going to have to relearn to be angry’ Sub-headline: In an interview with ‘Le Monde,’ Pierre Wunsch, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium, believes that Europe, built on the … Continue reading

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@bariweiss procalmes Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson : the two most important liberal journalists working in the legacy press today—Ezra at The New York Times, and Derek at The Atlantic.

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 18, 2025 Reader consider that Ezra Kline writes for The New York Times, whose support for Netnayahu’s Gaza Genocide and Zelensky’s Ukraine War is reaching its many murderious denouments. Or that Thomas Friedman, David Brooks & … Continue reading

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Such is the political desperation of ‘The Telegraph’ that it hired Simon Hankinson of the ‘The Heritage Foundation’, a Neo-Con Think Tank, to defame Mahmoud Khalil!

Newspaper Reader offers other prespectives! stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 17, 2025 Editor: The Telegraph’s Headline and Sub-headline frame this execercise in political hysteria. Headline: Mahmoud Khalil is a test case for the survival of Western civilisation Sub-headline: Europe seems resigned to not … Continue reading

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On the Inconvience Of History: the case of Niall Ferguson from May 08, 2013!

Newspaper Reader: A case of bad judgement or someting else? stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 16, 2025 The historian Niall Ferguson has denied being an “gay-basher”, claiming that his friendship with the prominent homosexual blogger Andrew Sullivan showed that he could not be … Continue reading

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@rcolvile never dissapoints his cadre of fellow Thatcherite Nostalgics!

Old Socialist offers a selective commentary! stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 16, 2025 Headline: Is this a bonfire of red tape — or yet more smoke and mirrors? Sub-headline If Keir Starmer is serious about cutting the costs of regulation, he needs to … Continue reading

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