Newspaper Reader on The Financial Times, The Economist : ‘The Other’ keeps manifesting itself from within!
Nov 04, 2025
Editor: Here is a a selection from the FT ‘political report’: The Billionaire Class that the Financial Times, just doesn’t cater to but coddles, like a new born infant, in need of succor! And the cadre of political opportunists who hope to feed on the remainders! Note the appearance of the highlighted first sentence of this paragraph as evidence of an ersatz objectivity!
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However, many on Wall Street remain sceptical. In July, JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon described Mamdani’s policy proposals as “ideological mush”. Financiers such as Third Point founder Daniel Loeb, billionaire Ronald Lauder and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Pacs opposed to Mamdani’s candidacy.
Mamdani has also had mixed success in his efforts to win over the Jewish community. He has said that antisemitism has “no place” in the city and said he would discourage use of the term “globalise the intifada”. But last month more than 850 rabbis and cantors from across the US signed an open letter opposing his candidacy, saying his rhetoric on Israel would “encourage and exacerbate hostility towards Judaism and Jews”.
New York’s near 50,000-strong police force has also been subjected to a charm offensive. Over the summer he met a large group of rank-and-file police officers in a closed-door session, during which he apologised for the June 2020 tweet.
He has also said he intended to ask Jessica Tisch to stay on as New York police commissioner if elected. Tisch, a billionaire heiress who was appointed by Eric Adams, has been a bugbear for some on the far left, despite her wider reputation for competence and professionalism.
By keeping her on, Mamdani signalled that he “wants the best and brightest”, says Wylde. “Diverse viewpoints. It’s the Team of Rivals concept.”
His lack of government experience remains a vulnerability. In the second TV debate on October 22, Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate, told him his “résumé could fit on a cocktail napkin”. Cuomo said he had “never had a job”, and would struggle to run a city with 300,000 employees and a $115bn budget. He would also be no match for Trump who “thinks he’s a kid”, the former governor added.
Mamdani himself has brushed off that criticism. “What I don’t have in experience I make up for in integrity,” he said in one debate. Turning to Cuomo he added: “And what you don’t have in integrity you could never make up for in experience.”
Mamdani remains a tough sell to many moderates. But there is no doubting his ability to connect with groups that Democrats have lost touch with — young and working-class voters and ethnic minorities — and who will be crucial to its hopes of regaining control of the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms.
Their enthusiasm was on full display at last month’s rally in Washington Heights, held in a famous vaudeville and movie house built in 1930 that was filled to capacity with volunteers and fans.
“Fundamental change only comes from the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future,” Mamdani said. “Together, that is exactly what we have done.”
Among the attendees was Ergene Kim, a recent arts graduate. “Since the elections last year there’s been a lot of cynicism and pessimism,” she says. “A lot of my friends want to leave the country.” Mamdani, a “symbol of change and optimism”, was turning the mood around.
“It would be a huge symbolic victory for the left in this country if he wins,” she adds. “It will show we’re still fighting. It will show we’re still here.”
https://www.ft.com/content/92bf9fba-dc24-4384-9e84-a6f63473eb2f
Editor: I can’t claim anything that might resemble objectivity, but the evidence is clear: that the political ascention of Mamdani, has precipitated not just the Financial Times, but The Economist, to levels of hysterical fear mongering of politician who is a Social Democrat and a Muslim. The Other keeps manifesting itself from within!
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The Economist is late to the game of one–upmanship against Zohran Mamdani?
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Nov 01, 2025
Headline: A political drama for the ages, opening soon in New York City
Sub-headline: Zohran Mamdani v Donald Trump. What could go wrong?
Editor: Zanny Menton Beddoes and her Oxbridger Cadre seems to have weighted too long to begin its assault on Zohran Mamdani! Reader recall this from my comment of Oct 29, 2025?
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