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@NYT front page du 5 décembre 2019 Anti-Macron, grèves anti-néo-libéralisation en France: en respectable bourgouise parle! #Un euphémisme comique? ‘Les troubles posent un nouveau défi à M. Macron, dont le style de gestion descendante a suscité des critiques.’ Vieux commentaires … Continue reading →

Here is a collection of would be telling, or better yet, wan attempts to offer ‘insights‘ on the Democratic candidates, still in the running. Well before the first Primary in February 2020. The Villain in this retelling is the favorite … Continue reading →

Headline: Michael Bloomberg: the magnate shaking up the 2020 election Sub-headline: Money on top of his success as New York’s mayor make a formidable candidate despite a late start https://www.ft.com/content/90cadb44-11eb-11ea-a7e6-62bf4f9e548a Should the reader look at the candidacy of Mr. Bloomberg as … Continue reading →

This screen shot of a Times report from November 29, 2019  The Times has finally caught up with one of its columnist:   The above from November 13, 2019 that links to this Economist interview of November 7, 2019. On … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh is a quick study, with all it attendant historical lacunae starkly evident.His collection of historical personages is tailored to impress a reader with his knowledge of American history, as his own.  Some book recommendations: the Gaddis biography of … Continue reading →

It shouldn’t surprise that Andy Divine shares a propinquity with Fiona Hill. Ms. Hill’s thesis adviser was the notorious Neo-Conservative Richard Pipes. So her Russophobia, bordering on paranoia, is comfortable political territory for Andy. The first paragraph of his essay … Continue reading →

If you’re in need of a mild chuckle today @JananGanesh @FT provides something that might meet your needs? This, for his audience of scriveners pretending to the status of Internet Boulevardiers. The pretentious is his métier. Allow me to itemise … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh opens his essay via ‘The Servant’ a movie, cineasts forgive my use of such an unsophisticated American term, just call me a provincial! The class animus in The Servant was meant to be peculiarly British.  Wasn’t this more about a … Continue reading →

It is getting very close to election day in Great Britain. Because so much is a stake, in this election, where can Mr. Freedland be? He’s the Blairite attack poodle who authored this from The Guardian of March 18, 2016 … Continue reading →

Macron s’annonce, déjà comme le leader de l’Europe! Où si Merkel? https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/11/07/emmanuel-macron-in-his-own-words-french L’économiste ultra réactionnaire agit “comme si” l’ascension de Macron à la direction de l’Union européenne est un “fait politique”! Macron récite tous les clichés, y compris celui de … Continue reading →