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4 days ago | 
newenglishreview.org | Conrad Black |Esmerelda Weatherwax
By Conrad BlackIt is generally agreed that not since Franklin D. Roosevelt 90 years ago has an American president attempted so comprehensive a policy reform in so many areas simultaneously as President Trump is now attempting. A wholesale invasion across the southern border deliberately tolerated by the previous administration has been ended.
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1 week ago | 
newenglishreview.org | Theodore Dalrymple |Esmerelda Weatherwax
By Theodore DalrympleFor the first time in my life, I have been a shopkeeper—admittedly for no more than a few hours, but I found it a curiously intense experience. It was not an ordinary shop, either, but that of Chinese antiquities and furniture, as well as of carefully selected ornaments and knickknacks, chosen with care by the owners. They are friends of mine, and they asked me to look after the shop when they had to go to a funeral.
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2 weeks ago | 
newenglishreview.org | Theodore Dalrymple |Esmerelda Weatherwax
By Theodore DalrympleWith a self-satisfaction that makes Mr Pecksniff seem almost as self-doubting as Hamlet, Aviva — once known as the Norwich Union — tells us, under the rubric of diversity, equity and inclusion, that “we are committed to ensuring our people are a reflection of the customers and communities we serve.”It goes on to say that it is a signatory of the Women in Finance Charter, the 30 per cent Club and the Race at Work Charter.
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3 weeks ago | 
newenglishreview.org | Conrad Black |Esmerelda Weatherwax
By Conrad BlackIt may not have been well-publicised in Europe, but the combination of the sudden temporary resolution and de-escalation of the tariff imbroglio between the United States and China has gone a considerable distance to legitimising the apparently brusque method of President Trump’s policy to eliminate the completely unjustifiable and ultimately unsustainable US trade imbalance of $1.2 trillion.
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3 weeks ago | 
newenglishreview.org | Conrad Black |Esmerelda Weatherwax
By Conrad BlackPrime Minister Carney has returned from Washington and is taking a bow from the highly supportive Canadian political press for a cordial meeting with President Trump.
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1 month ago | 
newenglishreview.org | Victor Davis Hanson |Esmerelda Weatherwax
By Victor Davis Hanson Recently, the German government announced that it is going to label or maybe relabel the Alternative für Deutschland—the Alternative for Germany—the conservative party that has an antithetical agenda both to the German government of both liberal and conservative factions, but also to the EU in general. Anyway, it is announced that it will classify it as a dangerous far-right organization.
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1 month ago | 
newenglishreview.org | Conrad Black |Esmerelda Weatherwax
By Conrad BlackThe forthcoming retirement of Warren Buffett as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at the age of 94 and after 55 years in that position is, because of his immense success and influence, a watershed occasion for international commerce. As his successor he has selected vice chairman Greg Abel, a Canadian from Edmonton who was not well known but presumably will instantly become quite famous.
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1 month ago | 
newenglishreview.org | Victor Davis Hanson |Esmerelda Weatherwax
By Victor Davis HansonWhere are we in the trade wars, the tariff wars? The stock market recently has recovered somewhat. We’re about where it was in August. I didn’t think it was too bad in August of 2024. It’s recovering 1% to 2%, on occasion. And why is that? Because Donald Trump has announced that JD Vance and his wife, who is of Indian legacy—her family was born in India—met with the Indian government officials, and there may be a trade deal. Japan has been talking with us.
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1 month ago | 
newenglishreview.org | Conrad Black |Esmerelda Weatherwax
By Conrad BlackThe death wish of the self-styled progressive Democrats is now so profound that it gives a clear hint of the suicide mission that the country would now be on if they had won the last election. Senator Van Hollen of Maryland is stirring up his colleagues to follow him in pilgrimages to the criminal gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, now detained in his native El Salvador.
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2 months ago | 
newenglishreview.org | Victor Davis Hanson |Esmerelda Weatherwax
By Victor Davis HansonI was looking at the news this week and I thought of an experiment. What if you really wanted to destroy the United States? What if you’d had ill intention for America? What would you do? What agenda would you pursue? And then I started thinking of civilizations. What was the stuff of civilizations that made them work? And it’s basic: their borders, their finances, their unity, their fuel, their food.
