Monthly Archives: June 2025

The Financial Times on : ‘Ambitious reform needed to ease UK higher education cash crunch, report says Review calls for ‘rethink’ of university funding and regulation’

The Financial Times and UK Higher Education! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 01, 2025 Amy Borrett in London Publishedan hour ago https://www.ft.com/content/32a16c10-25d6-484d-a1e9-9fbf8fc8cb1f “Ambitious reform” of funding and regulation is needed to stave off financial crisis in UK higher education as competition for students is … Continue reading

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Ross Douthat in two iterations @NYT & New Left Review.

Political Observer comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Jun 01, 2025 The New York Times May 31, 2025: Editor: the above is an example of the ‘Lowbrow Douthat’ in the ending of his essay at the New York Times. Ross Douthat Condition of America Interviewed by … Continue reading

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How did the ultramontane Ross Douthat manage to qualify for an interview in New Left Review?

Editor: Another question: what can the reader make of the utterly talentless Douthat, that conflates the iphone as a threat to Men an Women , and the declining birthrate? stephenkmacksd.com/ May 29, 2025 introduction Interview with Ross Douthat Claims that … Continue reading

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Ferdinand Mount on ‘Conservatism’: ‘Conservatives Have Lost Their Grip on the World — and Themselves’@NYT. (REVISED)

Political Observer on Mount’s contining attempts to self-emacipate from his Thatcherism, by means of political prestidigitation wedded to a selective re-telling of American History! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 26, 2025 Editor: in a mere 3151 word essay this Thatcherite continue to self-present … Continue reading

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Ferdinand Mount: The Eternal Thatcherite: ‘The Tongue Is a Fire’ …

Political Observer still has her copy of Jon Cruddas review of ‘The New Few’ from The Indpendent of April 26, 2012! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 24, 2025 Vol. 47 No. 9 · 22 May 2025 The Tongue Is a Fire Ferdinand Mount … Continue reading

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Name Your Poison : Yascha Mounk or Nicolas Chapuis of Le Monde

Political Cynic on the care and maitenence of bourgeois political respectability! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 23, 2025 … Yes, universities have made genuine blunders that predictably led to a widespread loss of trust. And yes, some corners of just about every American … Continue reading

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This merde almost makes me long for the days of Micklethwait & Wooldridge ?

Political Observer: Adam Roberts sent me this ‘ready made’ ! And surprise! its briming with Oxbridger Self-congratulation ! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 19, 2025 Political Observer. Share Political Observer.

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In the Time of the continuing The Gaza Genocide, Lemonde Celebrates ‘Steven Spielberg as guardian of Holocaust memory’ @AnnickCojean offers?

Newspaper Reader: Where might The Reader look for alternative sourses of information about The Shoah? stephenkmacksd.com/ May 17, 2025 Editor: Steven Spielberg is a phenominon of Pop Culture Entertainment! Not an arbiter of ‘History’ in any dimention except in its Movie House … Continue reading

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