French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has told French radio that U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal was a mistake, adding that the United States should not consider itself as the world’s “economic policeman.” The Europeans, in particular the British, French and Germans, are…
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Rhetoric Is the Art of Persuasion – Aristotle Source: http://sodralatinsgymnasium.stockholm.se/humanistiska-programmet-inriktning-sprak Soon after our article on Anthony Scaramucci’s BBC interview, the new White House Communications Director hit the headlines after a telephone rant full of expletives with Ryan Lizza, a journalist at The New Yorker. As usual, the commentariat put the…
Read MoreHot on the heels of our article yesterday QED – yet again, yet another member of the elite has shown that he doesn’t get it. Indeed, he cannot get it due to his wrong approach to politics and history. Writing in TIME magazine’s Top 100 most influential people in 2005,…
Read MoreAnthony Scaramucci, the new White House Communications Director, has given an interview to the BBC. The big scandal on social media in the United Kingdom was that Scaramucci kept invading the personal space of the female interviewer Emily Maitlis. Much more interesting is how such self-appointed “critics” failed to notice Scaramucci’s confirmation…
Read MoreMuch of the West is effectively bankrupt and insolvent. The developing world is not much better off. France’s cumulative debt of government, households and businesses amounts to 250% of GDP, an increase of 66% since 2007. That figure excludes unfunded pension and health-care liabilities. six largest pension saving systems –…
Read MoreWill Gore is Deputy Managing Editor of The Independent and the London Evening Standard. He “writes on a range of topics, including weekly columns about media ethics (having previously worked in press regulation).” Four days after the “surprising result” of the British general election held on 8 June 2017, he…
Read MoreThe decision of British Prime Minister Theresa May to call a snap general election for Thursday, 8 June 2017 has spectacularly backfired, but is just the latest in a series of catastrophic misjudgements by British prime ministers of both parties in the twenty-first century. Contrary to popular belief, it was…
Read MoreSpeaking on the TV channel France 24 just before the results of the first round of the French presidential were announced on 23 April 2017, John Gaffney, Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe at Aston University in Birmingham in the UK, said that the Fifth Republic…
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The Economist has just published two odd articles which, like so much analysis nowadays, are far behind the curve. In an article “A portrait of Migrantland – explaining Britain’s immigration paradox,” The Economist asked uncomprehendingly “Migration is good for the economy. So why are the places with the biggest influxes…
Read MoreЕсли Россия все еще хочет жить своим умом – это ее выбор Ключевой вопрос – может ли Россия избавиться от своего многовекового пофигизма и выйти на уровень Индии и Китая, а может, даже Запада и Японии. В замечательном фильме «Черный дождь» режиссера Ридли Скотта, глава якудза говорит главному герою, копу…
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