Zanny Menton Beddoes and her cadre: Edward Carr, Sacha Nauta & Duncan Robinson

Political Observer : The Reader must demand a the transcript! Even John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge used the The Economist as ‘the rehersal space’ for all those BestSellers!

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Dec 07, 2025

Editor: Reader take note that The Economist once had a vibrant comments section, that was discarded ! I once received two phone calls from the same represetative of The Economist as to the ‘why’ of my cancelation of my long time subscription. I was blunt! That comments section always was worthy of my time and attention, such was the quality of the comments section and its regular commentors!


Micklethwait & Wooldridge Best-Sellers:

The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea: 2005

The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State: 2014

God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World: 2009

The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus: 1996

A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization: 2000

The Wake-Up Call: Why the pandemic has exposed the weakness of the West – and how to fix it: 2020

The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America : 2004


Editor: By reading Micklethwait & Wooldridge in The Economist the reader was, in essence, reading the the ‘dress rehersals’ of those Best-Sellers !

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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