The Rule is anything written by @rcolvile: Approach With Caution !

Political Observer, with the help of Jean-Louis Missika & Dominique Wolton and James and Marie McIntosh.

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Apr 27, 2025

Editor: Mr. Colevile’s voice is very distinctive: The Reader cannot compare him in any way to @JohnJCrace of The Guardian, as political satirist and commentator. Mr. Colevile cannot match his talent in either of these fields: of commentary and political satire, with a welcome bite! Also consider Colevil’e political propinquity with arch conservative, and the utterly notorious @Jacob_Rees_Mogg! This just a quick sketch of ‘The Worlds’ that Colevile inhabits, touches, and attemps to explaine to The Reader.

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Headline: The prize on Thursday: who do voters hate the least?

Sub-headline: In these anxious times, all our politicians are more or less equally unpopular, all at once

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/local-elections-labour-reform-robert-colvile-wbrjcf68v

Editor: It can’t be a surprise, that Colevile political essay is a brief 1095 words? The question might occour, as to how The Reader might approach this bloated political itinerary? Reader consider the possibilities of naming all the political actors? Or might The Reader opt for the naming of the political operatives, that marked the 14 years of Tory Rule :David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak? Colevile’s strategy is to place himself outside the political action. Which in a way is servisable, that reminds me or just echos the book of The Committed Observer that I read in 1983.

The Committed Observer

Interviews With Jean-Louis Missika and Dominique Wolton = Le Spectateur Engage

By Raymond AronJean-Louis MissikaDominique Wolton · 1983

Political Observer.

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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