Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

The Reader has to be unsurprised by The Times celebratory, even ecstatic ‘reportage’ regarding the expulsion of Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party. Starmer has always been Tony Blair’s political catamite. Starmer offers no real threat to Blair, whom Mrs. … Continue reading →

Almost Marx follows the incense, and kowtowing… What does ‘woke’ mean? Think of the hysterics who inveigh against this- what it means is no longer a concern, but it is that elusive ‘substance’ , a political non-sequitur …that fires the … Continue reading →

Almost Marx reads @Peter_Conradi on Brigitte Macron Headline: Brigitte Macron ‘advises president on understanding the French Less than a year into his second term President Macron cuts an increasingly isolated figure: his ratings are poor, the team that helped him … Continue reading →

Political Observer. Here are the opening paragraphs of Mr. Friedman’s Feb 12, 2023 column: I woke up on Saturday morning, read the news from Israel that at least 50,000 Israelis had just demonstrated once more against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s … Continue reading →

Old Socialist resorts to minimalism! I’ll not waste much time on Neo-Con Ghoul Bret Stephens selective compassion: the last two paragraphs are enough melodrama, in which he plays the Lead Role. Even in the age of Ukraine and other disasters, … Continue reading →

Almost Marx … Here is the version of Mr. Douthat’s commentary on Biden’s ‘State of The Union’ address featured on the NYT front page: The actual column framing: Like Joe Biden, Mr. Douthat is a political hack/opportunist, whose latest political iteration is … Continue reading →

A writer for Politico, Clair Berlinsky of ‘The Cosmopolitan Globalist’, that resembles a ill-conceived blog, rather than a ‘Newspaper’ opines on: Her twitter page features evocatively gauzy ‘glamor shots’ of its author: Ms. Belinsky writes as if she were a Eurocrat on a Public … Continue reading →

Political Cynic contemplates @RColvile moral/political… After last week’s cri de coeur : Paying £250,000 a year for a child in care means nothing if we don’t show them love  Robert Colvile  Sunday January 29 2023, 12.01am GMT, The Sunday Times  … Continue reading →

_______________________________________________________________________________ It’s hard to be patient with Timothy Garton-Ash. Old Socialist makes his way through his ‘The future of liberalism’ stephenkmacksd.com/ Dec 17, 2020 The first two paragraphs on Mr. Garton-Ash’s essay are … Writers have interpreted the failings of … Continue reading →

Almost Marx … The Reader isn’t quite prepared, for Adam Tooze, in his Financial Times streamlined iteration. Those New Statesman essays, have been miniaturized for those busy Capitalist Technos? Those majestic paragraphs are … Call it a collection of ideas, … Continue reading →