Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

You might want to give that Helen Lewis Corbyn Anti-Semitism essay/defamation another ‘editorial look’! Headline: Labour antisemitism investigation will not be sent to equality commission Sub-headline: A report found factional hostility towards Jeremy Corbyn amongst former senior officials contributed to … Continue reading →

Dr Ian Wellens letter is just a bit too polite. It lacks something like a necessary combativeness ! I am an uncouth American. On the rise of Keir Starmer, a look at part of an American context, might offer insights … Continue reading →

“Bill Maher” When will this ‘Once Rebel’, now just the comic voice of a collapsed Neo-Liberalism, and its Con-Man-in-Chief Obama & the utterly loathsome Hillary, retire to the Comedy Old Folks Home? Like that other un-funny ‘Comic’ Jerry Seinfeld. It … Continue reading →

Headline: Inside Bill Ackman’s $2.6bn big short Sub-headline: Hedge fund chief bets on stockmarket recovery after profiting from coronavirus sell-off Dan McCrum and Ortenca Aliaj chronicle, in all its gripping economic melodrama, the triumph of the grey-haired genius boy Mr. … Continue reading →

Not even a mention of Pedro Sánchez’s essay in The Guardian of Sunday April 5, 2020 ? https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/apr/05/europes-future-is-at-stake-in-this-war-against-coronavirus The end of the E. U., and its single currency, in the Age of The Pandemic, is gaining momentum , or is … Continue reading →

Has this newspaper moved to The Left, with Covid-19 as its goad? Schumpeter’s ‘creative destruction’ ,that Mr. Thornhill makes the centerpiece of his intervention, in the face of the massive, and largely unsupervised bail-out of American Capital, passed by both … Continue reading →

Think of Stephens distopian view of the future,  as speculation in the political present, to unleash his penchant for fear mongering, garnished by comforting political kitsch. Think of that David Lynch’s classic Hollywood dreck ‘Blue Velvet’, as a bloated rhetorical … Continue reading →

Should it surprise any regular reader of The Financial Times, that it features two of the most prominent, not to speak of mendacious, defamers of Jeremy Corbyn, as somehow credible, on any given subject, after the public record of their … Continue reading →

I just have to wonder at the utterly bankrupt Andrew Sullivan’s latest moralizing essay, and its first paragraph: “There is no wealth but life,” the great critic John Ruskin once wrote. You can hear that faith in the words of … Continue reading →

Neo-Liberals, your ersatz Utopianism is not just in decline, but is on the Critical List! The Pandemic signals the revival of the long dormant notion, that the Nation State, as conceived in the Age of Enlightenment, and its sine qua … Continue reading →