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Reading the Lincoln Project Manifesto in The New York Times is instructive, of more than this collection of carefully framed political cliches, by political technocrats, who make it their business to write evocative and high-sounding rhetoric for use in campaigns: … Continue reading →

What to think of Fillon’s conviction? The notorious French Thatcherite was a shameless embezzler!  Headline: Former French PM sentenced to jail for embezzlement Sub-headline: François Fillon found guilty over wife’s fake job as parliamentary aide François Fillon, the former French … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh opens his collection of observations, prognostications, larded with the usual self-congratulation, framed by his own ‘grip on logical reasoning’,  with this paragraph: At its midpoint, 2020 is turning out to be one of the darkest years in the … Continue reading →

The ‘Two State Solution’ is as dead as Freud’s ‘Science of Psychoanalysis’! Psychoanalysis has morphed into, has been re-imagined into a form of ‘Jewish Storytelling’ , or a Metaphysic , according the various factions, of its coterie of practitioners. Its … Continue reading →

As a once regular reader of Timothy Garton Ash, in the NYRB, e.g. ‘The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 1989 as Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague’ and all his essays published in that once Left/Liberal tabloid, a vexing … Continue reading →

Headline: Emmanuel Macron Is Losing His Urban Grip Sub-headline: France’s cities aspire to more radical green policies, and that’s hard to square with voters from the rest of the country.  The reader need only read Laurent’s first paragraph: There were two … Continue reading →

Headline: Keir Starmer should finish the purge of Corbynism Sub-headline: Voters are warming to Labour’s leader but need to see he has the strength and courage to take on the party’s left-wing https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/starmer-should-finish-the-purge-of-corbynism-f7vpt9fv8 Rachel Sylvester’s Time’s column, of June 15, … Continue reading →

Note the first paragraph of Mr. Divine’s latest essay: One of the things you know if you were brought up as a Catholic in a Protestant country, as I was, is how the attempted extirpation of England’s historic Catholic faith … Continue reading →

Reading Mr. Ganesh’s latest essay features his ‘History Made to Measure’. Or you could look at it as an intellectual pastiche, of one of the paintings/assemblages of Red Grooms? Do investigate the work of an American satirist, of actual talent, … Continue reading →

This reads like a Press Release from the Biden Campaign. Trump has it wrong its not ‘Sleepy Joe’ but ‘Cognitive Deficit Old Joe’ ! The only real question is when and how will the New Democrats unload Biden? All carefully, … Continue reading →