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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

The Times Hysteria Mongering, only available as a video!

Posted on November 7, 2024 by stephenkmacksd

Political Observer: framed as ‘The New Axis Powers’ stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 04, 2024

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Rachiel Reeves Budget sends Robert Colvile, via Boris Johnson, into a panic about ‘the big state, the super-state, the mega-state.

Posted on November 4, 2024 by stephenkmacksd

Political Observer offers a brief evaluation of portions of his political intervention. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 03, 2024 Headline: Our £1.5 trillion state will mean nothing without innovation Sub-headline: Kemi Badenoch beware, there is no guarantee that voters will return to the … Continue reading →

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@NYT covers ‘The Big Stories’ on November 3, 2024!

Posted on November 4, 2024 by stephenkmacksd

Myra Breckenridge Reports! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 03, 2024 Can Joanna Coles and Ben Sherwood revive the once-buzzy news site and reclaim their perches atop the New York media world? Their own staff isn’t sure. Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles took over … Continue reading →

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Janan Ganesh in the Life and Arts section of The Financial Times, where he belongs!

Posted on November 4, 2024 by stephenkmacksd

Ganesh proclaims: ‘We will be living in Trumpland for decades’ stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 03, 2024 Editor: Mr. Ganesh begins his essay with this ‘The paragraph that follows is the most reluctantly written of my career.’: what might The Reader make of … Continue reading →

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@georgeeaton on the New Labour/Rachel Reeves Budget of Octorber 30 & 31.

Posted on November 1, 2024 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader: + Jonathan Rutherford’s book review of ‘The Five Rebels’! & Kate Andrews of The Spectator. (Be patient with me Reader) stephenkmacksd.com/ Editor: Reader recall Mr. Eaton’s essay from October 30, 2024: Headline: Morning Call: The Macbeth Budget Sub-headline :Why … Continue reading →

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@MarkUrban01 is a Zionist Apologist @thetimes of Saturday October 26, 2024!

Posted on October 27, 2024 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 27, 2024 Mr. Urbans essay begins here, as if it were an actual ‘news story’ rather than just propaganda! Editor: Mr. Urban ads a new descriptor to the vocabulary of reporters : securocrats. It will … Continue reading →

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The Lamentations of David Brooks of October 24, 2024.

Posted on October 26, 2024 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader follows the Brooks’ Historical pastiche! stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 26, 2024 Editor: The first paragraphs of David Brooks’ lamentations about the approaching America Elections: I had hoped this election would be a moment of national renewal. I had hoped that … Continue reading →

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@FT 10/26/2024 Front Page : Genocidal Netanyahu could not wait till after the US Election!

Posted on October 26, 2024 by stephenkmacksd

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 26, 2024 Plus my favorite Janan Ganesh’s personal melodrama: ‘Why it is lonely in the political center’! Newspaper Reader.

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@FT on Tony Blair 10/25/2024!

Posted on October 26, 2024 by stephenkmacksd

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Kier Starmer & Rachel Reeves on reparations: Nyet : ex-shadow chancellor John McDonnell, is the Ghost of The Labour Party, before The Purge!

Posted on October 26, 2024 by stephenkmacksd

Old Socialist comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Oct 25, 2024 King Charles has acknowledged the “pains of the past” in an attempt to smooth over the ongoing row about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade. Speaking on the first full day of the Commonwealth … Continue reading →

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