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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

‘Second Referendum’ leaves the Financial Times unimpressed. Old Socialist comments

Headline:Labour party to back second referendum on Brexit Sub-headline: UK opposition party favours public vote ‘to prevent a damaging Tory Brexit’ After years of political hysterics, coming from this newspaper, and all the other publications of whatever political persuasion i.e. … Continue reading

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The Sunday Times & biographer Tom Bower exposes Corbyn as an ‘academic failure’, ‘fanatical Marxist’ , in sum , the politically toxic admixture of Lenin, Stalin & Mao ! Almost Marx takes the measure of this expression of political hysteria.

Headline: Tom Bower on Jeremy Corbyn: he left for Jamaica an academic failure and came back a fanatical Marxist Sub-headline;  Throughout his career the Labour leader has used tactics learnt from the communist playbook. His biographer Tom Bower charts his … Continue reading

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Franklin Foer’s selective polemic on ‘This Week in Anti-Semitism’. Political Observer comments

Mr. Foer collects a series of Newspaper Headlines, but he mixes reports on Police Records and Ben Judah: Europe’s ubiquitous anti-Semitism,  Mr Judah a member of a ‘Think Tank’ funded by perpetual bad actor George Soros: one of the coterie … Continue reading

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gideon.rachman@ft.com : attempts to rehabilitate The Clash of Civilizations. Philosophical Apprentice comments

For a country of genocidal, land and mineral stealing Immigrants ,not to speak of racists, to have produced an Imperialist Operative  like Samuel P. Huntington is no surprises. The fact that he wrote ‘Clash‘ in a Post Cold War environment, … Continue reading

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The Financial Times proclaims the Anti-Semitic abuse of the gilets jaunes! Almost Marx comments

Headline:French anger at anti-Semitic abuse during ‘gilets jaunes’ protests Sub-headline Writer Alain Finkielkraut verbally assaulted on fringes of Saturday march in Paris The perfect marriage Macron and Neo-Conservative, i.e. Zionist Apologist, Alain Finkielkraut, a union made in the 9Th Circle! … Continue reading

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My reply to @bobopapal

@bobopapal Thank you for your comment.  Americans are perpetually ‘optimistic’  its part of the American Mythology.  You offer threadbare, not to speak of ersatz metaphysics, in lieu of actual argument! Quantify ‘optimism’ ! How does this ‘optimism’ manifest itself in … Continue reading

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edward.luce@ft.com Ocasio-Cortez vs Incrementalist New Democrats & ‘Free Market’ Republicans. Old Socialist comments

Title this Ocasio-Cortez vs Incrementalist New Democrats! A sample of Mr. Luce’s utterly forgettable political chatter: in the heyday of print this would be lining a birdcage tomorrow, but in The Internet Age it will live forever! The chief exhibit … Continue reading

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James Shotter reviews Radoslaw Sikorski’s new book. Political Observer comments

Mr. James Shotter presents a workman like review of Mr. Sikorski latest book. Mr. Sikorski has deep ties with a generation of Posh Boys like Osborne ,Cameron and Johnson as he attended Oxford University. See Mr. Sikorski Wikipedia entry for … Continue reading

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On RFI’s anti-gilets jaunes political hysteria mongering! Almost Marx comments

Headline: Violence against France’s institutions – how far is too far? Sub-headline:  An arson attempt on Saturday at the residence of France’s Speaker of the Assembly has put the spotlight on similar acts of vandalism aimed at France’s public institutions. … Continue reading

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From the Versailles Dining Room of The Hoover Institution, episode CCXXI Niall Ferguson on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and The Green New Deal . Old Socialist comments

It can’t be anything like a surprise that Neo-Conservative Mr. Ferguson attacks, again, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and The Green New Deal (GND) in his regular Sunday Times column: Last week I began to understand how the Democrats will lose the 2020 presidential … Continue reading

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