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Political Cynic takes @FT pulse! US Supreme Court rules that Donald Trump can remain on Colorado ballot Decision is victory for former president and removes one obstacle in his run for White House US Supreme Court rules that Donald Trump can remain … Continue reading →

Political Cynic offers some thoughts. Not at all surprising that former Neo-Con, now ‘Liberal’  Fukuyama is plowing the same field that he furrowed in December 8, 2013, with a new cast of characters: The days of swooning admiration for his Hegelian … Continue reading →

Political Observer offers Occam’s razor… Headline: What George Galloway’s sweeping win in Rochdale says Sub-headline: His campaign centred on Gaza, a welcome sign for the SNP, which may seek to exploit its difference from Labour’s stance to gain support https://www.ft.com/content/3a831861-9a36-4945-a050-702daca4223f … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. The first 570 word chatter is taken up with the paradigmatic figure of Howard Buffet, father of Warren Buffett. Reader proceed with caution when reading Buckley’s protege! A potted history of the Republican Party, with its focus … Continue reading →

Queer Atheist comments Tom Friedman’s latest essay focuses on the question of Israel’s loosing ‘acceptance’. Mr. Friedman’s attempt to impresses his readership with his world travels. And the almost hand-wringing white washing, of the Genocide practiced Netanyahu, aided by American arms and … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. Headline: Academics can no longer speak freely Sub-headline: Solving this crisis in higher education should transcend the division between the right and the left. https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/02/academic-free-speech For many years, left-wing opinion-makers have told us that there is no … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. Headline: Islamophobia and antisemitism are not the same Sub-headline: Prejudice against Muslims is deplorable but it’s not bigotry to call out the Islamist threat to Jews https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/islamophobia-and-antisemitism-are-not-the-same-nxgrqvxbt Melanie’s self -willed forgetting of ‘The War On Terror’: Melanie … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. Mr. Sandbu has many political admirers, fellow travelers!? The International Monetary Fund, in the person of Paolo Mauro, offers this in the final paragraphs of his review of ‘The Economics of Belonging’ : … His proposed policy package pushes … Continue reading →

Using Kant’s Crocked Timber of Humanity as a starting point and this book: The above tinctured in a bit of Hegelian Prestidigitation… can a possible case be made, that Heidegger’s ‘Jewish World Conspiracy’ has been realized in the Gaza Genocide, that is taking place … Continue reading →

Political Cynic comments. Headline: How Europe should negotiate with Donald Trump Sub-headline: He is obsessed with money but his record suggests he doesn’t always drive a hard bargain https://www.ft.com/content/191ad713-f4b2-459f-8c4c-d12e1d678232 As a regular reader of The Financial Times’ ‘Ganesh Chatter’ is always … Continue reading →