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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

Bayrou was the sixth prime minister under Macron, since the French president was first elected in 2017.

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 08, 2025 Headline: Bayrou ousted as French PM, Macron to appoint successor in ‘next few days’ Sub-headline: After just nine months in office, François Bayrou will have to hand in his resignation. His fall leaves President … Continue reading

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Milei vows to stick to his guns while Peronism celebrates after Buenos Aires Province 2025 elections.

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 08, 2025 Peronists said Sunday’s victory constituted a rejection of austerity and the small-state model, while Libertarians admitted to ‘mistakes’ but were tight-lipped about what, exactly, would change. Dollar soars and stocks plummet as markets react … Continue reading

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The Roberts Court is a Neo-Confederate Court: Except for the ‘3 unnamed Dissenters’: (per NYT)

Americal Dissenter stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 08, 2025 … The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration-related stops in the Los Angeles area that challengers called “blatant racial profiling.” The court’s brief order was unsigned … Continue reading

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Robert Colvile is too clever by half?

American Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 07, 2025 Headline: Reeves can keep her pledges, or break them and save the economy Sub-headline: Labour is trying to get large sums from small taxes. That concentrates the pain in ways people notice https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/rachel-reeves-pledges-tax-economy-5kjvxkzhb Sunday … Continue reading

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Watch How this BRAVE MP WIPES The FLOOR with Keir Starmer and Labour in House of Commons on LIVE TV!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d4ocWsS2Ww stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 07, 2025

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The Reader needn’t wonder at the choice of Gaurav Kapadia, as the prefect choice of ‘The Economist’ ‘idea’ of an adviser to The New-Democrats? (Revised)

American Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 06, 2025 Editor : It’s impossible to find out Kapadia net worth! *Should the American reader wonder at the why of this choise by The Economists? The Reader just needs to fosus on his opening … Continue reading

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@FT Front Page of 9/6/2025

‘The Audacity of Mope’ by Janan Ganesh, dwarfs all else? stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 06, 2025 https://www.ft.com/

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https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/angela-rayner-resigns-latest-news-keir-starmer-p8l9mmrpj (revised)

American Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 05, 2025 Read on, it just gets better! Yours, A. O. … Were is Thatcherite Ghoul Robert Colvile? And: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/03/how-the-telegraph-exposed-rayner-tax-dodge/

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@davidfrenchjag never disappoints, nor even underestimates, his bourgeois liberal readerships’ quest for nearly plausable, ready made explanatory frames! (Revised)

Political Observer on the virtue of ‘The Catch Phrase’, and other exploitable ‘Thought Forms’? stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 04, 2025 It’s early on a January morning in 1979, I’m 10 years old, and the adventure is about to begin. My alarm jolts … Continue reading

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Is the Right Choice a Good Bargain?

I began subscribing to The New York Review of Books in 1970! NYRB taught be how to be critical of my teachers! stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 02, 2025 Is the Right Choice a Good Bargain? Michael Walzer March 5, 2015 issue 5. … Continue reading

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