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It shouldn’t surprise that Andy Divine shares a propinquity with Fiona Hill. Ms. Hill’s thesis adviser was the notorious Neo-Conservative Richard Pipes. So her Russophobia, bordering on paranoia, is comfortable political territory for Andy. The first paragraph of his essay … Continue reading →

If you’re in need of a mild chuckle today @JananGanesh @FT provides something that might meet your needs? This, for his audience of scriveners pretending to the status of Internet Boulevardiers. The pretentious is his métier. Allow me to itemise … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh opens his essay via ‘The Servant’ a movie, cineasts forgive my use of such an unsophisticated American term, just call me a provincial! The class animus in The Servant was meant to be peculiarly British.  Wasn’t this more about a … Continue reading →

It is getting very close to election day in Great Britain. Because so much is a stake, in this election, where can Mr. Freedland be? He’s the Blairite attack poodle who authored this from The Guardian of March 18, 2016 … Continue reading →

Macron s’annonce, déjà comme le leader de l’Europe! Où si Merkel? https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/11/07/emmanuel-macron-in-his-own-words-french L’économiste ultra réactionnaire agit “comme si” l’ascension de Macron à la direction de l’Union européenne est un “fait politique”! Macron récite tous les clichés, y compris celui de … Continue reading →

@tdal1moe Thank you for your comment. One of the reasons I came to read The Financial Times is that Chomsky recommended its reporting as more reliable. Iv’e been a reader since around 2007 and I’m inclined not to agree with … Continue reading →

This is like reading David Brooks, in The New York Times before he became a Political Prophet, and Self-Help Guru to divorced over 40 males, in his utterly pretentious ‘The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life‘: the places, … Continue reading →

The reader just might wonder at what exactly a ‘Wealth Editor’ is/does? Its obvious that part of the job is to construct apologetics for billionaires, as in  this essay. As UBS is the ‘source’ for this opinion piece, what will … Continue reading →

What reader can forget the Edward Luce’s  essay of Nov. 7, 2019 ? Headline: America’s religious war will test the limits of democracy Sub-headline: Liberal dogmatism risks alienating the ‘exhausted majority’ https://www.ft.com/content/0a4ac312-00f3-11ea-be59-e49b2a136b8d Will Mr. Luce’s doom and gloom be lifted … Continue reading →

Its unfortunate that Mr. Ganesh missed reading Matthew Goodwin’s essay of Sunday November 3, 2019 in which he quotes H.L. Mencken: … The American journalist and critic HL Mencken once remarked that “the whole aim of practical politics is to … Continue reading →