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Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 19, 2025 Headline: ‘Europeans are going to have to relearn to be angry’ Sub-headline: In an interview with ‘Le Monde,’ Pierre Wunsch, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium, believes that Europe, built on the … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 18, 2025 Reader consider that Ezra Kline writes for The New York Times, whose support for Netnayahu’s Gaza Genocide and Zelensky’s Ukraine War is reaching its many murderious denouments. Or that Thomas Friedman, David Brooks & … Continue reading →

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 →