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Michael Stott ‘reporter’ for The Financial Times & employee of Institute of The Americas opines on Lula. Old Socialist comments.

The Financial Times begins its Anti-Lula Campaign with this collection of the comments of ‘Free Marketeers’ , for want of a better term. What might the reader think of Mr. Stott’s membership in the ‘Institute of The Americas’ ? This … Continue reading

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Weekend reading for March 6 & 7 of 2021. Some thoughts from Old Socialist

Looking for something else, I saw this essay by Perry Anderson: ‘High Jinks at the Plaza’ a review of three books. The British Constitution Now by Ferdinand Mount.Heinemann, 289 pp., £18.50, April 1992, 0 434 47994 2Constitutional Reform by Robert Brazier.Oxford, 172 pp., £22.50, September 1991, 0 19 876257 7Anatomy of Thatcherism by Shirley … Continue reading

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Catching up with @RColvile: his January 10, 2021 essay on the NHS. Old Socialist comments, after the fact!

His column takes the reader from Mr. Colvile, as reporter on the state of the NHS five years ago:  ‘When we talk about the NHS collapsing, we think of people being left to die in their homes. But the truth … Continue reading

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@davidshor New Democratic Technocrat/Apparatchik Old Socialist comments.

I printed out this July 2020 interview, conducted by Eric Levitz, of Mr. Shor. Almost a full twenty pages long.  Mr. Levitz excels at soft-ball questions, inquiries. Perhaps in deference to Mr. Shor’s wunderkind status? ‘College Marxist’ is a demonstration … Continue reading

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victor.mallet@ft.com reports on the preliminary skirmishes, of the approaching 2021 election, in Macronistan. Political Cynic and friend comment.

As always ‘The Rebellion Against the Neo-Liberal Elites’ that takes place regularly, in France, remains unreported, in this newspaper! Its ‘old news’. What takes the place of actual, but inconvenient news, is the ‘Culture War’ French Style: It devours everything … Continue reading

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Janan Ganesh on Daft Punk & the pressing question ‘Is America a Social Democratic country?’ Political Cynic scoffs!

After Mr. Ganesh’s eulogy for ‘Daft Punk’ of February 26, 2021: Daft Punk and the virtues of mystery Business and politics could learn from the French duo’s reluctance to ‘engage’ https://www.ft.com/content/54fdadfe-7ea5-4278-8e0c-daf7039caf6e This duo in tharl to Star Wars and Tron, … Continue reading

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@OwenJones84: political equivocation/political conformity is his métier! Old Socialist comments

Mr. Jones, you are the master of political equivocation, not to speak of political conformity. That the Blairite Coterie manufactured the ‘Anti-Semitism of Corbyn’ as the political wager to ensure what? That Labour would lose to Boris? It was a … Continue reading

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The Freudian Self-rescue Project, episode DCCVII: Leo Robeson interviews Josh Cohen. Self-Emancipated Analysand comments.

What can the reader make of this paragraph of Mr. Robson’s interview with Josh Cohen? “Can you imagine if you presented Freud to Jane Austen?” Cohen asked me recently, during a two-hour amble around Kensal Rise, near where he lives … Continue reading

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Janan Ganesh on Joe Biden as Political Redeemer. Angry Cosmopolitan comments.

Headline:Joe Biden can save global migration from the deep freeze Sub-headline: Through example and sheer numbers, an open US could bring an open world … ‘This criminally undersells it. Whatever their content, previous reforms were of national or perhaps regional … Continue reading

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@RColvile on Kier Starmer, and the problematic ‘Corbyn Loyalists’ in Labour Party. Old Socialist comments

Read Mr. Colvile’s C.V. as posted at the Center for Policy Studies web site: Robert Colvile is Director of the CPS and Editor-in-Chief of CapX, as well as a columnist for The Sunday Times. In December 2019 he took a … Continue reading

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