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The Financial Times has allowed one of it’s former Public Enemies a space to offer some new ideas about a pressing issue. One is hardly surprised at the response of the readership of the FT! A concerted campaign of vilification … Continue reading →

Is Bernie Quigley the nom de guerre that Niall Ferguson has adopted for this editorial? The argument such as it is: America has been carrying these politically worthless Europeans for too long, to foreshorten this diatribe! Quigley/Ferguson echos the Germans … Continue reading →

Amidst the doom saying chatter Mr. Gioia adds this well worn cliche of the current political orthodoxy: ‘And it’s been a tough time for satirical magazines. The terrorist attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo has had a chilling effect … Continue reading →

For some further insights into some of the questions raised in Mr. Munchau’s essay, and other pertinent questions about the how of the EU, and it’s methods and self-serving ‘legal interpretations’  see Mr.Nathan Tankus’ essay: Mario Draghi: The ECB Has … Continue reading →

Putting all this together, Europe now has a system where liquidity and insolvency problems can occur and can be deliberately generated (at least in part) by the central bank. Then the Troika can force that country into an “IMF program” … Continue reading →

Mr.Moisés Naím is a Think Tank Technocrat who manages to offer not one valuable insight into Trump or Tsipras! Nor even the attempt to hint at or even sketch, no matter how briefly, the historical/political context that produced these two … Continue reading →

First we had Edward Luce commenting on the political phenomenon of Trump, larded with cliche and self-serving misapprehension, which has a certain appeal to the reader of The Financial Times. Mr. Trump as dramatis personae  of  an ‘anti-politics’ or simply … Continue reading →

You have to give Sen. Cotton his due! As student of Harvey Mansfield and protege of William Kristol he is a well credentialed Neo-Con, but with the political savvy to frame his criticism of Kerry in biblical terms.Therefore capturing a … Continue reading →

From the deep recesses of the intellectual technocracy comes ‘the Globalist’ aided by Mr.  André Reichel as writer/prognosticator,  on the ‘last man standing’ for Europe or at least the Europe represented by Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble. The Germany called … Continue reading →

Nebenkanzler is the perfect shadow leader of the fissuring EU, the perfect stern pater familias : a stock character in almost all of European literature. Yet what renders the German political/moral position null is the reports in these pages by … Continue reading →