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@JananGanesh & tony.barber@ft.co discuss the ‘stunning upset’, staged by the arch-enemy of The Neo-Liberal Dispensation, Jeremy Corbyn: or the almost crocodile tears of a Tory Hipster and an E.U. Hetaera. Committed Observer shares her thoughts

https://www.ft.com/video/bdc96067-b1de-45fb-ad74-adc1c7513811 There really isn’t much here except the usual chatter of myopic Pundits, Ganesh and Barber, looking at the second defeat of the Tories, in such a short period of Political Time: Cameron’s vote was on June 23, 2016!  How … Continue reading

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Janan Ganesh on ‘Terror’ and the ‘frivolous general election’. Political Observer comments

In his recent essay, Mr. Ganesh avoids the obvious use of political cliches, but still manages to sound the notes of a baffled ‘Occidentalism’ that cannot come to terms with the glaring fact that America and its European Allies, and … Continue reading

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Old Socialist comments on the coming British Election, with an assist from the august Financial Times

From the headline and sub-headline of just two days ago, June 3, 2017, in The Financial Times by Paul Mason : Corbyn has caught the mood of a UK grown tired of austerity Britain is not a leftwing country, but … Continue reading

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Two competing narratives on ‘The Six Day War’: Bret Stephens vs James North

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Andy Divine on Trump, the British Election & the perpetual menace of ‘Left Wing Students’. Old Socialist comments

Andy Divine serves up more Trump Hysterics, instead he should be paraded in front of the world in sack cloth and ashes, for his part in making ‘The Donald’ a part of American’s rickety political furniture. His last contribution was … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: Theresa May as the ‘lesser of two evils’. A comment by Political Reporter

This pronouncement by the editors of the august Financial Times ought to produce guffaws in the regular reader of this Tory tabloid: The Financial Times has no fixed party allegiances. This publication stands for a liberal agenda: a small state, … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: Edward Luce’s funeral oration for Zbigniew Brzezinski. Some thoughts by Political Observer

Of the three ‘policy technocrats’ that Mr. Luce mentions in his essay on Zbigniew Brzezinski: Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft and George Shultz, only Mr. Shultz had any real combat experience, as Mr. Scowcroft was a career military bureaucrat. Mr. Brzezinski’s … Continue reading

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More Brexit Melodrama from Janan Ganesh. Political Reporter comments

When he ran to be US president in 1968, Robert Kennedy questioned whether gross national product could measure American greatness while it counted napalm, cigarette advertisements, environmental ruin, “special locks for our doors and the jails for people who break … Continue reading

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Neo-Conservative Ghoul Bret Stephens understands terrorist carnage like you never will! The argument: the visceral informs the intellectual. A comment by Karl Kraus’ Ghost

To witness a suicide bombing up close is to understand, at its etymological root, the meaning of the word “carnage.” A bomb packed with nails, ball bearings and metal scraps — the sort that Salman Abedi detonated in Manchester on … Continue reading

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At The Financial Times: Episode CXXIII of Gideon Rachman’s Political Hysterics. A comment by Political Reporter

The Western Political Melodrama is brought into focus by the Peronist Trump! Merkel simply brings to the fore the fact that Europe must defend itself, but against whom. The Myth of Russian Revanchism is growing old but the NATO,EU murderous … Continue reading

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