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The Critic, after Sheridan. stephenkmacksd.com/ May 04, 2025 Headline: Reformageddon suggests Tories and Nigel Farage could help each other Sub-headline: Any party that can win both Kent and Durham needs to be taken very seriously indeed. https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/reform-tories-nigel-farage-d396ql080 Mr. Colevile is … Continue reading →

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ May 04, 2025 Jonathan Freedland never disappoints, except in the matter truth, facts or valid argument! It’s his habit of being! Political Observer engages in some Political Archaeology. Headline: It’s risky, but Joe Biden needs to give … Continue reading →

Political Observer traces the poitical evolution of Freedland from Corbyn defamer, to Trump would be diagnostician ! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 02, 2025 One of Mr. Freedland’s talents is to self-present as a political chameleon, who changes political hues at conveient political … Continue reading →

Political Observer on the bumptious Mr. Brooks! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 01, 2025 Reader here is a link to my commentary on Brooks’ notorious defence of the War On Terror. Editor : Mr. Brooks has become a more adroit propagandist since the … Continue reading →

Political Observer, with the help of Jean-Louis Missika & Dominique Wolton and James and Marie McIntosh. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 27, 2025 Editor: Mr. Colevile’s voice is very distinctive: The Reader cannot compare him in any way to @JohnJCrace of The Guardian, … Continue reading →

Political Cynic comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 27, 2025 Editor: The headline of Miranda Green’s would-be commentary is exhausted in a marriage of the headline & sub-headline, that trades on the well worn political place holders , wedded to current jargon. Opinion … Continue reading →

In the guise of Political Observer, my attempt to satirized Mr. Douthat: I missed the actual thinker/writer of his books, rather that his opinion columns in The New York Times? stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 26, 2025 Editor: For the occasional reader of … Continue reading →

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 23, 2025 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Editor: There can be no doubt that Stephens self-presents as a political moralist via Harold Macmillan, and that the birth of a diatribe has begun. Stephens as a Neo-Con and student of Leo … Continue reading →

Has Political Observer strayed into the most pressing question of the Historical Moment? Also, does Huntington’s ‘Who Are We’ offer an echo of Douthat in another key? stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 20, 2025 Editor: For an exploration of this ‘Catholic Duality’, if that is … Continue reading →

Political Observer on Peter Thiel and the Gordian knot? stephenkmacksd.com/ Apr 19, 2025 … 1. The Enlightenment’s mistake. “You can distinguish the intellect and the will. The medievals believed in the weakness of the will but the power of the … Continue reading →