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Political Cynic acts as a reluctant Drama Critic… Headline: Meta says 30mn people have signed up to Twitter competitor Threads Sub-headline: Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has pitched app as a ‘friendly’ alternative to Elon Musk’s struggling platform https://www.ft.com/content/63b27e71-c568-49d4-9a03-aa48f8397a27 Recall this … Continue reading →

StephenKMackSD. My replies in The Financial Times of July 4, 2023 Headline: French businesses start rebuilding after riot ‘nightmare’ Sub-headline: Macron says will push through emergency law to accelerate reconstruction for damaged property https://www.ft.com/content/468501f8-fbd2-442f-ba92-b4f329e9184f ‘The Rebellion Against The Elites’ continues? … Continue reading →

Political Observer. Under the frame of ‘FALSE DICHOTOMY’ The Reader has to be patient with Alaric DeArment’s first two paragraphs of his ‘essay’ that are mere preamble: A scene of squalor unfolds as the camera moves along a city street … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice The constant stream of ‘Trumpology’ that Lowry has produced in how many weeks? has made way for a long and dismal apologetic for the ‘Roberts Court’. If only Lowry possessed a talent for polemic. But the energy with which he imbues … Continue reading →

Political Cynic … . The composed Headline, that reads in part ‘Party like it’s 1917’ the maladroit framing, expresses a dull-witted attempt to shanghai Prince’s 1999 best selling Pop Record? call it at best pathetic. Or an attempt to reach a generation of … Continue reading →

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Political Cynic as Political Archeologist. Here is Joan Walsh’s essay from 2002 on Nader’s book “Crashing the Party” that gets lost in her logorrhea. Headline: The (non-)confessions of St. Ralph Sub-headline: Ralph Nader’s new book makes it painfully clear that … Continue reading →

Political Cynic comments. Here is a portion of The Economist essay of June 24, 2023: This appears to be one of The Economists Readymades, hastily stitched up for the occasion. Europe | Rebellion in Russia  The Wagner Group halts its march on Moscow  Vladimir Putin … Continue reading →

Political Observer looks at The Economist’s Past, to predict its… The Reader of The Economist confronts the not so underlying tone of political moralizing. Ukraine’s war is raging on two fronts. On the 1,000km battlefront its armies are attacking the … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice comments. After this collection of David Cameron’s successors: Teresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, Adrian Wooldridge, in the role of ‘Bagehot’ announces: Britain | Bagehot Headline : Reading the death certificate on Boris Johnson’s political career … Continue reading →