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Political Observer comments. Editor: reader start with the titles and subtitles of each of theses political interventions. The Economist: Leaders | Lord, make us proportional—but not yet Britain’s skewed election reinforces the case for voting reform. After 2029 The new government … Continue reading →

Can Macron’s Anti-democratic ‘retirement age’ be revoked, expunged, etc.? Political Observer speculates! On paper, the proposal looks simple, but the conditions for its implementation are the subject of intense debate. A few minutes after the initial estimates of the outcome … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. The first three paragraphs of the Ganesh essay are carefully assembled with Ireland as the key state, in fact, the paradigmatic case for NATO. His talent as a Story Teller is not quite the same as his … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments JUL 06, 2024 Share Though not a subscriber to PUCK I keep getting this in my email. Now Puck must be the latest copy, on the once ascendent Vanity Fair, under perennial ass kisser Graydon Carter, now … Continue reading →

Political Observer engages in some Political Archaeology. Headline: It’s risky, but Joe Biden needs to give way to someone who can beat Donald Trump Sub-headline: The president had one job: to prove he was strong enough to take on his … Continue reading →

Old Socialist’s selective quotation introduces the English Reader to this French nonpareil. Headline: ‘People hate you’: The French are increasingly rejecting Macron Sub-headline: The French president is omnipresent, despite having pledged to let his prime minister lead the campaign for … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments on the Institute for Fiscal Studies link. Freddy is probably not a reporter, nor a stringer, but a person who complies and edits the work of other, the less important contributors – he is the Oxbridger buffer … Continue reading →

Political Reporter comments. Editor: the first two paragraphs set the stage for this act of political shaming of Farage: for his lack of conformity to the received wisdom that Putin is the ‘author’ of the War in Ukraine. Its ‘as if’ 2014 and the … Continue reading →

Former Analysand offers a selective commentary! What is the Magic of Freud that sends his apologists, explicators, defenders and even his cadre of worshipers, to such dross? Here is George Prochnik in the TLS: The Reader is put directly within the early … Continue reading →