Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Philosophical Apprentice wonders if Tyszka-Drozdowski had missed other revelatory sources of comment? Perhaps Tyszka-Drozdowski had missed this intervention? https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571301744-the-rotten-heart-of-europe/ Or this from 2021 by Bernard Connolly? The Importance of Sovereignty Click to access TIE_W21_Connolly.pdf Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski : Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski frames … Continue reading →

Political Observer considers the question. 1. Headline: Road to perdition Sub-headline: Why the Conservative Party faces an end to its political hegemony By Martin Ivens 2. Britain | Bagehot Headline: Inside the Spectocracy  Sub-headline A good way to run a magazine is … Continue reading →

Political Cynic comments on another Pretender! What might The Reader make of John B. Judis as thinker/writer? Below is a review of his ‘The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust’ Can Populism Be … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice approaches with doubt and caution! The first four paragraph’s of Rachman’s essay are a bit overwrought, indeed bordering on the melodramatic. It hasn’t occurred to this self-imagined Political Technocrat, that the World is changing/evolving, at such a speed that ‘it’ has … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice comments. It doesn’t quite occur to Mr. Ganesh that his argued commonalities, between European and American ‘Populism’ might be the product of an utterly failed Neo-Liberal Model, that ruled the West from Thatcher/Reagan era, to its tattered remains … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice evaluates a Neo-Conservative’s fictional persona. The Reader confronts Stephen’s History Made to Measure : Do the people chanting “Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” have any idea of the irreparable harm … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice comments. Look at what my brief absence from the Political Scene has wrought, to speak in terms that echo’s, in its way, Mr. Ganesh’s self-regard: One victim of the Covid-19 pandemic had died 500 years earlier. Raphael (1483-1520) … Continue reading →

Political Observer loses her patience with 786 words remaining! The Reader need only look at the third paragraph of this, what to name it? On November 4th The Economist was invited by the idf to accompany troops to the front line. Over … Continue reading →

Political Cynic comments. November 13 , 2023 Headline: David Cameron made foreign secretary in Rishi Sunak reshuffle Sub-headline: Former Tory PM back in government in shock move dubbed ‘desperate’ and ‘laughable’ by opposition https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-foreign-secretary-sunak-reshuffle-b2446285.html?lid=x4fqo785eh7d The Reader needn’t trouble herself with … Continue reading →

Political Observer attempts to ‘read’ Gideon Rachman’s Propaganda? Mr. Rachman begins his ‘essay’ with a Pop Song. Looking at Rachman’s bloated Cast of Characters, is more than a possible explanation, for his attempt to mimic Trollope in miniature ? A quick review … Continue reading →