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Part Two: The Professional Managerial Classes: The Critical Effects of Critical Theory and the Long Arc of the Educators of the Frankfurt School?

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Part One of this blog series discussed whether the commencement of the 2nd Trump Administration would alter the political will and allegiances of highly educated professionals and the techno-managerial class- Will they remain under the influence of a left-leaning ideology prevalent in recent decades or yield to the new administration’s political manifesto to retain their […]

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Worrying Times for the Old Global Order as Trump Returns? – Part 1

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This part of the blog series on the political ascendancy of the professional and managerial classes (PMC) shall comment on the return of Donald Trump as 47th President of the USA and the reaction to the result, and future challenges ahead. Introduction It shall refer to the politically influential left leaning (or liberal in US

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Summertime Freneticism

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The summer months of 2024 have proved eventful with early general elections in the UK where the Labour party won a large majority on a third of the vote. In France too, a left-wing coalition gained seats in the Assembly Nationale over incumbent President Macron’s centrist UMP. Iran held a presidential election, after the untimely

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So, Who Do you Think You Are? – Part two

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Please read the first part of the blog here. It seems that from older cultural perspective old habits persist for reasons of cultural belonging and a sense of home. While with the expression of group identity via social media or the achievement of a university degree where not only individual grades but the institutes place

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So, Who Do you Think You Are?

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The half-forgotten yet still familiar habits and customs that maintain a social-class system beyond its original state and why those habits and social customs provided people with a sense of belonging and common cause in the country and the social hierarchy where they live. A Brief History: Cultural sensibilities and affiliations arise and deepen through

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Do the Terms Left-Wing and Right-Wing Still Mean Anything?

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Nearing the quarter century mark of the 21st century why are we still using terminology from the 18th century, regarding the sitting arrangements of pre-revolutionary France’s Estates-General, forerunner to the current Assemblée National? Wherein, the royalists’ supporters sat on the right of the assembly and the anti-royalists on the left of Louis XVI’s legislature, who

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Higher for How Much Longer and Steady the Shipping? 

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October 2023’s ‘Higher for Longer: A Cure and a Curse’ blog requires an update to how much longer will central bankers hold interest rates at their current levels before rate cutting begins- for instance, the European Central Bank is expected to start in June.  Central Bankers and their economic advisors, along with media pundits, are

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That’s Resilience for You: US Q3 GDP Growth Revised Up from 4.9% to 5.2%

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Despite economic concerns over issues such as inflation and rising interest rates, geo-political tensions and hostilities, the world’s largest economy has just had its gross domestic product growth revised up to 5.2% for period from July to September 2023, according to the Daily FX website. The Financial Times (2023) initially reported the story at the

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The Problem of Appropriate Accountability

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The complicity blog’s conclusion (Little Deal Clincher, August 2023) mentions of the Problem of Appropriate Accountability which concerns citizens who are substantially removed from decision-making or effective influence over events. These events can be political, military, or commercial. It is where culpability and complicity are retrospectively applied, after injustices or accusations of such have occurred,

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Complicity: Accepting It Is Your Fault Forever?

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With the renaming and relaunching of the Little Deal Clincher blog to Navigating the Challenges of 21st Century Life: A Private Investor’s Perspective. It shall continue to comment on investment from the private investor’s perspective and to discuss political and cultural issues. The update makes the website easier to navigate with an archive of topic

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