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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

Pankaj Mishra on the Khan victory, a comment by Political Observer

As compelling as I found Mr. Mishra’s essay to be, in his celebratory mood, he has missed some  very important points about Mayor Khan’s victory: Khan has very pointedly, in this essay at the Guardian,  pronounced himself as New Labour, … Continue reading

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Luce interviews Petraeus, a comment by Premature AntiFascist

‘“Ungoverned spaces in the Islamic world will be exploited by people who wish us ill, they will not be contained,” he says. “Syria is a veritable political Chernobyl — tsunamis of refugees, contributing to extremist activity even in our own … Continue reading

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The Financial Times on Sadiq Khan, a comment by Political Reporter

The Financial Times has found its candidate for mayor of London, or at least someone who responds to their current manufactured political hysterics . Mr. Sadiq Khan has demonstrated that he can play the political game, like an obedient New … Continue reading

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Janan Ganesh’s London Spleen, a comment by Political Observer

Dub Mr. Ganesh’s commentaries London Spleen, after Baudelaire‘s posthumously published masterpiece. Mr. Ganesh’s essays are alive with Tory contempt and bile for everyone, who is not a believer in the natural ascendancy of the Tories, and of course the New Labour … Continue reading

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Edward Luce misses two things: America First & Containment, a comment by Political Reporter

There is much to agree with in Mr. Luce’s essay, much that resonates with many Americans. Mr. Trump manages, in his long winded way, to highlight American discontent with its global role as the singular world power, now being supplanted … Continue reading

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@prospect_uk @johnmcternan

Cut off the head, Corbyn, the posited enabler of Antisemites, so that New Labour’s sycophants, i.e. Blair clones of Thatcherites, can regain control of the Party. Take your cue from Strauss, and his political ally/confederate Carl Schmitt: sow the seeds … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times : Antisemitism & Jeremy Corbyn, the manufactured crisis

At The Financial Times Robert Shrimsley opines on April 28, 2016: How Jeremy Corbyn turned me into a political Jew. It is simply impossible to vote for a Labour party that does not appear to like us. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5e642d92-0c57-11e6-9456-444ab5211a2f.html#axzz47LrFIllT A Financial Times … Continue reading

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Bagehot on the moral/political danger of Jeremy Corbyn, a comment by Almost Marx

Its April 30th 2016 and this has been published at Vox Political: titled Livingstone vindicated: There WAS a Nazi-Zionist agreement and Hitler DID support it published April 28, 2016 : http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/04/28/livingstone-vindicated-there-was-a-nazi-zionist-agreement-and-hitler-did-support-it/ ‘It turns out all those who clamoured for Ken … Continue reading

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Jacob Weisberg to Bernie: Surrender!

In sum, Jacob Weisberg argues the case for Clinton as her supporters have argued it: Bernie has lost and it is now time for him to step aside gracefully and cede to Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Weisberg extemporizes on the theme … Continue reading

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Alan Johnson: ‘Jeremy Corbyn is incapable of tackling Labour’s anti-Semitism problem’: a comment by Political Observer

  Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom and a senior fellow at BICOM, Britain Israel Communications & Research Center: ‘BICOM, the Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre, is an independent research centre producing research and analysis about Israel and … Continue reading

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