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Radical Socialist comments… Read just the first two paragraphs of Luce’s essay, or should it be referred to as his wan Bill of Attainder, against Kristalina Georgieva? Kristalina Georgieva’s alleged sins may look trifling to some. The IMF’s managing director … Continue reading →

Almost Marx scoffs! Headline: Nato expels 8 Russians for spying Sub-headline: Maximum size of Moscow delegation to Brussels headquarters halved as east-west relations deteriorate https://www.ft.com/content/a3c24aea-8db8-44ad-bbc4-6acbb77a93da The New Cold War reaches one of its many denouements! NATO had once outlived its … Continue reading →

Political Cynic’s thought experiment. If Bret Stephens had appeared in ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’, book by Laura Z. Hobson, screen play by Moss Heart, and an uncredited revision by Elia Kazan, he would have appeared as one of a collection of bigots , both … Continue reading →

Political Observer scoffs! Here are the opening paragraphs of Mr. Caldwell’s funeral oration for the Enlightened Merkel Rule: The drubbing inflicted on Germany’s Christian Democratic Union in the country’s recent elections is a sign that, alongside Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 16-year … Continue reading →

Old Socialist offers some selected paragraphs. Note the collection of Topic Sentences, carefully brought to vivid life by our Adrift Thatcherite … On Inter-connectedness : The past two years have taught us a brutal lesson in how interconnected the modern … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments on the ‘political transcendentalist’. This newspaper employs one of the most interesting writers and political commentators, of the political present, in Janan Ganesh! I read many different publications on the internet, I spend my days reading! Conduct … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice, on the political toxin of ‘History Made to Measure’. The reader has to recognize that Martin Wolf , by linking to Kagan and Frum’s essays, of the two of the most notorious Neo-Cons, signals the complete rehabilitation of these political … Continue reading →

The ignominy of being compared to Jimmy Carter, and Mr. Luce self-serving myopia, regarding Reagan’s back door deal with the Iranians : topped off with an Oxbridger’s pastiche of a Psychoanalysis of President Biden, and Doom Saying. Maybe not Freud, … Continue reading →

After this stinging indictment, of the feckless Joe Biden, as presented by Mr. Luce:   Headline: Biden’s Afghanistan fiasco: ‘We look like a deer caught in headlights’ sub-headline: The chaotic scenes in Kabul are unlikely to derail his domestic agenda … Continue reading →

Edward Luce addresses the reader : Headline: Biden’s Afghanistan fiasco: ‘We look like a deer caught in headlights’ Sub-headline: The chaotic scenes in Kabul are unlikely to derail his domestic agenda but undermine his promise to restore competence Not since … Continue reading →