Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Headline: The mortal threat to Labour Sub-headline: The party’s future is uncertain as it loses touch with the working class, writes Jon Cruddas The framing of the headline and the sub-headline are familiar, yet Jon Cruddas shows himself to be … Continue reading →

Let us look at Mr. Wolf on the Elites: January 14,2014 Headline: Failing elites threaten our future Sub-headline : Leaders richly rewarded for mediocrity cannot be relied upon when things go wrong Mr. Wolf describes the three visible failures of … Continue reading →

The newest propaganda unleashed by National Security State political actors and their journalist allies, in the West, is the notion of ‘Fast Radicalization’ of perpetrators of mass murder, who fit into the loosest of all categories of criminals ‘The Lone … Continue reading →

The invention of the idea of ‘Fast Radicalization’ is a propaganda tool that places everyone in the Muslim minority in France under suspicion, that is it’s reason d’etre ! It discards the practice, even the idea of evidentiary based investigation, … Continue reading →

KissMeHardy, Thank you for your comment. ‘Perhaps Stephen you can regale us with your expert view, after all you website proclaims you are an ‘intellectual’. I think I have already expressed my opinion on Mr. Heisbourg’s combination of self-advertisement and scaremongering … Continue reading →

François Heisbourg is an employee of a Think Tank that specializes in ‘Security’ issues, I don’t read French but just a look at their web site can lead to only one conclusion: he has a product to sell, his vaunted … Continue reading →

Mr. Davies makes more interesting and creative use of some of the available statistical data than did Jürgen Habermas in an interview reprinted at The Social Europe web site. https://www.socialeurope.eu/2016/07/core-europe-to-the-rescue/ Habermas presents his statistical data as some how a form … Continue reading →

In this ‘interview’ conducted by fellow traveler Thomas Assheuer,  Habermas proves himself to be a Neo-Liberal, not a democrat, mitigated by Mr. Habermas’ penchant for    self-congratulatory intellectual garnish e.g….– in what Hegel would have called a valet’s perspective –…  … Continue reading →

Arthur C. Brooks has just awoken from a very long Neo-Liberal slumber to find the USA about to burst into political flame,1968 style. Although Mr. Brooks was born in 1964, this reader was there and witnessed it first hand! Mr. … Continue reading →

The first to comment in this collection of small essays  on the Brexit Vote is David Runciman.It is a myopic political analysis filled with data and a special pleading for Proportional  Representation, that functions argumentatively as some kind of answer … Continue reading →