Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Political Observer surveys the dust pile. Headline: Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet Joe Biden in Washington in quest for more aid Sub-headline: Ukraine leader also set for talks at Pentagon and Capitol Hill as Congress considers $24bn support package for Kyiv … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. I won’t waste The Readers time, here are the final two paragraphs of this Financial Times ‘interview/apologetic’ for Blair. Not to forget that Mrs. Thatcher called Blair her greatest accomplishment. A question arises as too whether Blair, was the … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. The first three paragraphs of Mr. Ganesh’s political analysis offers? There is no such thing as a popular US president. Each one enters office with the suspicion or ill will of almost half the electorate now. Once … Continue reading →

Old Leftist comments. Replying @TheEconomist Macron’s ‘Jupertarian Politics’ capstone was the Anti-Democratic passage of the raising of the Retirement Age, codified by : French court approves the Macron retirement-age hike despite protests https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/14/france-retirement-age-pension-reform-constitutional/ A top French court on Friday approved … Continue reading →

Old Socialist attempts to to untie the knot? Headline: The UK is becoming a pragmatic country again. Sub-heading: Britain has turned against radical politics faster than other rich nations because it has lost more from it. https://www.ft.com/content/f8293796-aea7-4157-878e-fc535a6f4a22 Note Mr. Ganesh’s … Continue reading →

Political Observer offers a review of J. G. A. Pocock’s Barbarism and Religion, Volume 1 and 2. The Historians, as the pretenders to the status of Oracles, never disappoint in their quotations from each other. John Rapley ends his New … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. Headline: She Attacked Israel and The N.Y.P. D. It Made Her Law School a Target Sub-headline: A student gave a commencement address at the famously progressive CUNY law school. Two weeks later, she was attacked by the … Continue reading →

Political Cynic breathes deep, and chokes, on the incense burnt in the names of misbegotten expertise. Mr. Bret Stephens is a political opportunist, always looking to guild his commentaries with some high sounding, and not the least pretentious opening paragraph. … Continue reading →

Political Observer recalls the Republican Convention of 1964, and the importance of Newspapers. I watched the 1964 Republican Convection, as a high-school drop-out, I watched too much television. The expulsion of William Scranton, or at the least the public shaming … Continue reading →

Old Socialist eventually finds, the elusive, diminutive, ‘Culture Department’. The Reader might just ask what is a ‘Culture Department’? Here are the opening paragraphs of Colvile’s essay, that does not mention that ‘Culture Department’ : Here’s a riddle for you. Energy costs … Continue reading →