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Uber and Lyft ,and the others cited in this article, are Taxi Services not ‘ride-hailing services’ and are regulated in the Public Interest by the City of New York. Something the Financial Times can’t seem to grasp! But theses companies, … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh doesn’t offer much in his latest essay. But this one word quote from the Foreign Policy technocrat Richard Haass: ‘Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations suggests “abdication”, …’ What is happening is that the  technocrats, from … Continue reading →

For the readership of this newspaper with a memory longer than last week, this newspaper and its writer/hirelings have been Anti-Corbyn, since he began his rise in the Labour Party, as the alternative to the ruling Blairite faction. The Party … Continue reading →

The IMF mantra of ‘Austerity’ has never worked ! Macri will go through the motions: “It has become clear that Macri wants to focus the fiscal cuts on spending, without backtracking on commitments to lower taxes, especially on agricultural exports,” … Continue reading →

Mr. Payne in the second and third paragraphs of his essay offers an evaluation of Mrs. May’s failed ‘vision’ for Tory politics, when she was elevated to replace the bungling and  bulling Mr. Cameron. … Back in the summer of … Continue reading →

Reading Ms. Kakutani’s essay/fable titled ‘Deconstrution industry: Issues with truth in modern American’ in the July 27, 2018 print issue  and ‘Trump and the truth: Michiko Kakutani explores the issues with truth in modern America’ in the online version,of the TLS … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh is almost back to form, almost. As he describes the American political landscape of August 2018, it resembles the political present, yet his quick travelogue or just a history made to measure, lacks a complete description of the … Continue reading →

As a columnist for the New York Times Mr. Brooks writes two essays a week,regularly appears on television and writes books like ‘The Social Animal’, that reads like it was written by a Sociologist, who kept his manuscript hidden, because … Continue reading →

Bob Woodward is America’s Saint-Simon, with the power to blackmail the subjects of his ‘reportage’ , which makes for riveting palace gossip! And this Politico ‘news story’ by Annie Karni is reliant on anonymous sources: a marriage made in The 9Th … Continue reading →

Financial Times ‘second stringer’ Robert Srimsley repeats the totally false, not to speak of defamatory Party Line on Corbyn, ANTI-ANTISEMITISM! All the top tier hacks are on vacation.  Do desperate times call for desperate measures : ‘guttersnipe journalism’ ?  Or … Continue reading →