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Newspaper Reader offers other prespectives! stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 17, 2025 Editor: The Telegraph’s Headline and Sub-headline frame this execercise in political hysteria. Headline: Mahmoud Khalil is a test case for the survival of Western civilisation Sub-headline: Europe seems resigned to not … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader: A case of bad judgement or someting else? stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 16, 2025 The historian Niall Ferguson has denied being an “gay-basher”, claiming that his friendship with the prominent homosexual blogger Andrew Sullivan showed that he could not be … Continue reading →

Old Socialist offers a selective commentary! stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 16, 2025 Headline: Is this a bonfire of red tape — or yet more smoke and mirrors? Sub-headline If Keir Starmer is serious about cutting the costs of regulation, he needs to … Continue reading →

Political Observer: Free Speech used to be a Constitututional Guarantee, indeed a Right? stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 15, 2025 I’ve been a regular suscriber of the Manhattan Institute’s newsletter for some time, yet nothing quite preparred me for this collectively hysterical post. … Continue reading →

Old Socialist confronts the revelatory Cast of Characters! But the full scale Anti-Russian near hysteria is really the central attraction! stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 14, 2025 Editor: The Reader has to wonder at the employment of the use of ‘peaceniks vs. hawks’ … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader confronts his short, willful, erratic, & heedless final paragraphs! stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 12, 2025 …. What team Trump has achieved is the opposite: A Russia that sees even less reason to settle, a Europe that sees more reason to … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader: please note my highlights: stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 12, 2025 … …. The discovery that Trump is electoral halitosis isn’t the only thing diminishing his golden facade. Shortly before the president’s inauguration, George Osborne spoke of the mood among Democrats he … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 10, 2025 Leaders | The death of giving The demise of foreign aid offers an opportunity Donors should focus on what works. Much aid currently does not … What does Russia want? Some reports in recent … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader on Mrs. Thatcher’s brat, with an Anglican turn! stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 09, 2025 Mr. Colvile is/was a child of wealth and priveledge, he is not quite as obnoxious as Jacob Rees-Mogg, but he is close!The first paragraph of Mr. … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 09, 2025 Headline: France, seen as the spearhead of European defense, worries Russia Sub-headline :Macron and Putin on Friday engaged in a long-distance sparring match about Napoleon and imperialism. As soon as the European Council … Continue reading →