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BRITAIN AND EUROPE IN A TROUBLED WORLD  176pp. Yale University Press. £16.99 (US $25).  Vernon Bogdanor  RELUCTANT EUROPEAN  Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit 352pp. Oxford University Press. £25 (US $35).  Stephen Wall  In this long paragraph Mr. Evens … Continue reading →

The reader can look to Mr. Ganesh’s essay of November 27, 2020 for his latest rhetorical strategy: Headline: What the dream hoarders get wrong about parenting Sub-headline: The rich screen their children from the hardships that form genius https://www.ft.com/content/b3b92ba4-f6e7-4fd1-bc61-6a73272e8b49 It’s … Continue reading →

Headline: Machine guns and a hit squad: the killing of Iran’s nuclear mastermind Assassination set to escalate tensions as US president-elect Joe Biden keen to restart nuclear talks https://www.ft.com/content/a2fade69-f-9fd3-1641ae1fddb13b03-4d0 Note that Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is named as the sinister, in fact … Continue reading →

Headline: The Tories must mobilise soon in the culture wars, or they may find themselves outflanked Mr. Colvile’s opening paragraphs is a tale of victimhood, once in the reactionay imagination the province of ‘The Left’. Last week the journalist Suzanne … Continue reading →

Alexander Douglas reviews two books, that led me to some thoughts and considerations.   Adam Smith  Systematic philosopher and public thinker Sympathy not selfishness  By Eric Schliesser  The Infidel and The Professor  David Hume, Adam Smith, and the friendship that shaped modern thought By Dennis Rasmussen  Just … Continue reading →

‘You’ quote two members, in good standing, of The American National Security State. Brennan is a notorious liar, not speak of a maladroit practitioner of subterfuge: he is an incompetent liar and propagandist! The significance of the latest killing is … Continue reading →

Katrina Manson opens her essay with Linda Thomas-Greenfield. She is part of  ‘A global team of respected professionals’ at Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington, D.C. https://www.albrightstonebridge.com/ Mr. Biden can respect a fellow self-promoter! Joe Biden & Son is a Corporation with a … Continue reading →

Should the reader look to Robert Colvile’s essay in The Sunday Times of November 22, 2020, for his answer to the conundrums enunciated by Mr. Sunak, and reported upon here at The Financial Times ? The headline gives the game away: … Continue reading →

Bagehot ( Adrian Wooldridge) in his November 21, 2020 essay at The Economist: Headline : In search of a modern Machiavell Sub-headline: The ideal political adviser is hard to find After some preliminary commentary on Johnson’s advisers, their costs and … Continue reading →

Reading Robert Colvile Sunday Times essay titled ‘In case no one has told you yet, debt’s piling up and there’s only one way out — growth’ of November 22, 2020 demonstrates the Thaterism isn’t quite dead yet. As Mr. Colvile … Continue reading →