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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

Ferdinand Mount on ‘Conservatism’: ‘Conservatives Have Lost Their Grip on the World — and Themselves’@NYT. (REVISED)

Political Observer on Mount’s contining attempts to self-emacipate from his Thatcherism, by means of political prestidigitation wedded to a selective re-telling of American History! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 26, 2025 Editor: in a mere 3151 word essay this Thatcherite continue to self-present … Continue reading

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Ferdinand Mount: The Eternal Thatcherite: ‘The Tongue Is a Fire’ …

Political Observer still has her copy of Jon Cruddas review of ‘The New Few’ from The Indpendent of April 26, 2012! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 24, 2025 Vol. 47 No. 9 · 22 May 2025 The Tongue Is a Fire Ferdinand Mount … Continue reading

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Name Your Poison : Yascha Mounk or Nicolas Chapuis of Le Monde

Political Cynic on the care and maitenence of bourgeois political respectability! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 23, 2025 … Yes, universities have made genuine blunders that predictably led to a widespread loss of trust. And yes, some corners of just about every American … Continue reading

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This merde almost makes me long for the days of Micklethwait & Wooldridge ?

Political Observer: Adam Roberts sent me this ‘ready made’ ! And surprise! its briming with Oxbridger Self-congratulation ! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 19, 2025 Political Observer. Share Political Observer.

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In the Time of the continuing The Gaza Genocide, Lemonde Celebrates ‘Steven Spielberg as guardian of Holocaust memory’ @AnnickCojean offers?

Newspaper Reader: Where might The Reader look for alternative sourses of information about The Shoah? stephenkmacksd.com/ May 17, 2025 Editor: Steven Spielberg is a phenominon of Pop Culture Entertainment! Not an arbiter of ‘History’ in any dimention except in its Movie House … Continue reading

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David Brooks on the pressing question of ‘the overproduction of elites’

Newspaper Reader offers – Reader never forget that Brooks became the protege of William F. Buckley Jr.: In sum Brooks whole career was the product of that singular advantage! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 16, 2025 Editor: It can’t really be a surprise … Continue reading

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Robert Colvile and Dominic Sandbrook of The Sunday Times!

Political Observer comments! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 11, 2025 Editor: Usually I look to The Sunday Times and my favorite Thatcherite Political Romantic Robert Colvile: Headline: Ed Miliband’s wind plan has left him hostage to suppliers Sub-headline: The idea that we could … Continue reading

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Reader compare mendacious political fabulist Jonathan Freedland, with John Crace of ‘The politics sketch’!

American Reader comments ! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 10, 2025 Editor: Reader begin here : Jonathan Freedland: Headline: The art of dealing with Donald Trump? Don’t fight him alone. Sub-headline: This week’s trade deal is a boost for Keir Starmer. But a … Continue reading

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Thomas L. Friedman has written an imagined Letter to Donald Trump!

Can The Prick of Conscience be awakened in Trump? Political Cynic plays Doubting Thomas! stephenkmacksd.com/ May 09, 2025 Editor: Its always important when reading the troka of Friedman/Brooks/Stephens that each of these writers is a committed Zionist. So Mr. Friedman’s … Continue reading

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Le Monde in English: In 2 Iterations: On Pope Leo XIV ‘as a pope of balance and appeasement’ & Vladimir Putin as ‘the privetiser of the 1945 Victory’

Political Observer shares the wealth? stephenkmacksd.com/ May 09, 2025 Leo XIV, a pope of balance and appeasement By Benoît Vitkine, Sarah Belouezzane and Amanda Chaparro (Cuzco (Peru) correspondent) Published today at 10:29 am (Paris), updated at 11:45 am ProfileThe American Robert Francis Prevost’s affiliation with … Continue reading

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