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Mr. Luce calls the Republican Party’s want of courage on the vexing question of Trump ‘a dangerous impasse’ while headline writers at The Financial Times call it: Paralysis grips Republicans over Donald Trump. You can almost hear the newsboys of … Continue reading →

In this essay Mr. Ganesh takes the role of the lovesick Christian de Neuvillette, being tutored  by Cyrano de Bergerac, except that the consistent rhapsodic refrain is not Roxanne, Roxanne, Roxanne but Macron, Macron, Macron! It would be comic except … Continue reading →

Mr. Bromwich style is very readable in this instance, I don’t know that Bromwich has modeled his style on that of Murray Kempton, but it sometimes reads if it were. The essay seems quite straight forward, except that the shifting … Continue reading →

The vision of  Monnet for the EU was of a Federation of Technocrats, democracy in a coal and steel cartel was not just irrelevant, but a danger to the profit motive of a Capitalism, employed as a check in the … Continue reading →

America’s Fascist Newspaper, the Wall Street Journal , according to political expert Gore Vidal, provides a forum for Kenneth W. Starr,a.k.a. Roy Cohn’s Ghost, to defend Trump’s jurisprudential catamite Rod Rosenstein’s attack on Comey. It must be really important to … Continue reading →

The idea that the political designations Right and Left as being obsolete is one of the cornerstones of the Neo-Liberal Dispensation. The in-order-to of Buruma’s intellectual mendacity is to pose his conjecture in the interrogative. All of this with the proper … Continue reading →

‘The Big Read’? David J Lynch and Sam Fleming do a workman like job of reportage. Or more accurately, produce more of the same low grade political melodrama the reader of The Financial Times has come to expect. That features … Continue reading →

Comey may have made mistakes; he may have had a Messiah complex; he may go down in history as a self-righteous prick who interfered in an election. But he is obviously and transparently independent — the key criterion for any … Continue reading →

Headline: Donald Trump fires FBI director James Comey Sub-headline: Washington stunned by dismissal carried out as bureau probes campaign ties to Russia The latest episode in the New Cold War Melodrama is the firing of FBI Director James Comey by … Continue reading →

Macron is a Thatcherite with a Public Relations Makeover: all earnest young ‘Reformer’ that will lead France into the bright Neo-Liberal Future. He is not the Speed & Shock of Fillon, but the expression of the ‘Hope & Change’ of … Continue reading →