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Dearest Tina, Evey time I go to the Daily Beast site two things happen, first I miss your deft editorial hand, expressed in the now long disposed of commentary on the Royals, and then I read the bellicose chatter of … Continue reading →

Mr. Quigley doesn’t quite write his essay, but stitches it together not with the aid of Mr. Stephens’ opinion pieces, but lets Mr. Stephens do the actual work. Stephens  and his fellow pundits are following the Financial Times Party Line … Continue reading →

If Mr. Douthat isn’t busy fussing/ fuming about the out of wedlock birth rate or just generally poking his nose into the unsupervised uterus’ of American women- I know! His penchant for patrolling the American female body and it’s morally … Continue reading →

Now think back: Ben Fong-Torres in Rolling Stone circa 1972, writing about The Stones or that infamous Grateful Dead Air Cal Flight from San Francisco to L.A., where Jerry Garcia passed around a Bowie knife, with lines of cocaine on … Continue reading →

The Panic of The Elites is in answer to The Rebellion Against The Elites. That Rebellion has been a political mainstay of the Financial Times for some months, to explain the rise of a subversive Populism of both Left and … Continue reading →

Never fear you are at The Financial Times. The proof is Mr. Stephens opening paragraph larded with a list of the current political cliches, of the failed utopianism, of a codified Neo-Liberalism, while pointing the finger of accusation at all … Continue reading →

It is something that may animate the citizens of great powers or nations with raw memories of humiliation, but our benign history and retirement from the top table make us different. To keep tracking our place in the food chain … Continue reading →

Headline:Why Ian McEwan speaks for England Sub-headline: We await his judgment on Labour under Corbyn, the malaise of Europe and technology’s dark potential  One reads these two claims/assertions with a kind of amused wonder at the Ganesh perception of McEwan, … Continue reading →

Mr. Bershidsky assures us as an ‘insider’ with many contacts in the Ukrainian Coup government, in its many iterations, that it is all those corrupt self-seeking Ukrainians, who are at fault for the 40% inflation rate of 2015? It’s not … Continue reading →

What eludes Mr. Cesca’s grasp is an  understanding that Brooks is a propagandist. And the Pop Sociology of Marc J. Dunkelman, of The Watson Institute, is used as part of the central Conservative Party Line of the decay and degeneration … Continue reading →