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Three paragraphs from a laterday Straussian Hysteric: Bret Stephens.

Newspaper Reader confronts his short, willful, erratic, & heedless final paragraphs! stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 12, 2025 …. What team Trump has achieved is the opposite: A Russia that sees even less reason to settle, a Europe that sees more reason to … Continue reading

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‘My Friend George Eaton’ offers more than one point of interest, is his latest ‘New Statesman’ Political Roundup!

Newspaper Reader: please note my highlights: stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 12, 2025 … …. The discovery that Trump is electoral halitosis isn’t the only thing diminishing his golden facade. Shortly before the president’s inauguration, George Osborne spoke of the mood among Democrats he … Continue reading

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Reader don’t waste your precious time reading the whole of this @Economist Essay. Read my speculations … think of Hayek’s Readers Digest version of ‘Road to Serfdom’!

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 10, 2025 Leaders | The death of giving The demise of foreign aid offers an opportunity Donors should focus on what works. Much aid currently does not … What does Russia want? Some reports in recent … Continue reading

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@rcolvile shames the lazy and shiftless, as he channels Mrs. Thatcher’s hatred of the poor and the undeserving!

Newspaper Reader on Mrs. Thatcher’s brat, with an Anglican turn! stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 09, 2025 Mr. Colvile is/was a child of wealth and priveledge, he is not quite as obnoxious as Jacob Rees-Mogg, but he is close!The first paragraph of Mr. … Continue reading

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Alexander Mercouris and Alex Cristoforou provides a revelatory answer to Benjamin Quénelle of Le Monde!

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 09, 2025 Headline: France, seen as the spearhead of European defense, worries Russia Sub-headline :Macron and Putin on Friday engaged in a long-distance sparring match about Napoleon and imperialism. As soon as the European Council … Continue reading

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Zanny Minton Beddoes (ZMB) inhabits the ghost of Walter Bagehot ,to narrate The Herosim of Volodymyr Zelensky?

Newspaper Reader comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 07, 2025 Europe | The old world wakes up The dangerous tension in Europe’s response to Trump By trying to stop the rift, Europe may hasten it Editor: in three paragraphs ZMB presents her case for … Continue reading

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The Economist’s Political Romance with Friedrich Merz.

The Economist and it’s AfD problem! stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 05, 2025 Editor: Reader look at the numbers in the German Election: With vote counting finished, preliminary results show the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz and its sister … Continue reading

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Reader recall that ‘Eurozine ‘was the propoganda arm of the 2014 Ukainian coup!

Political Observer defends Historical Memory! stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 05, 2025 The present day Apologists for the 2014 Ukraian Coup have elided from History this document authored by Neo-Con Timothy Snyder, and his fellow travelers, named in the section named ‘Locations’! Ukraine: … Continue reading

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@rcolvile and the NHS: the political infatuations of Mrs. Thatcher are re-born Again,Again & Again…

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 03, 2025 Editor: the reader might wonder at the opening paragarph of Mr. Colviles broadside of the NHS. A member of The Gentry opines via a sterotype ! Here’s a very old joke about an Irish … Continue reading

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In praise of Janan Ganesh, from September 6, 2020!

StephenKMackSD. stephenkmacksd.com/ Mar 03, 2025 Janan Ganesh’s Hipster L.A. American Writer comments Posted on September 6, 2020 by stephenkmacksd Mr. Ganesh is my favorite flâneur! He can write a feuilleton, the rhetoric of the Sunday Supplement’s decorous chatter, like no other writer in … Continue reading

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