The Post-Partisan Emporium

 Although this essay discusses politics in France, the observations and analyses can be applied to most Western nations. Useful Shadows. Maybe creating the “Extreme Right”was a bad idea. Aurelien I don’t know what ideas Festival of Humanity would conjure up in the mind of the average Anglo-Saxon. Happy-clappy guitars, perhaps, peace and love? Desmond Tutu and Ursula von der Leyen? In fact, it’s all to do with a newspaper. L’Humanité was founded by the great French Socialist Jean Jaurès, and was the Party’s official newspaper until 1920, when after the Congress of Tours, the departing Communist faction took it with them. From then until reality dictated otherwise in 1994, it was the official newspaper of the PCF, and since then, it’s clung on as an all-purpose leftist publication. A tradition for almost a hundred years, is the annual Festival, largely based around music, taking advantage of the fact that popular French musicians have often had leftist sympathies. I haven’t been the...

  At Arm’s Length of Epstein The G20 didn’t drum up the IMEC standards on the spot. The OECD and BIS developed that architecture between 2019 and 2022, and the G20’s September 2023 announcement was merely a political sign-off. Ratified by G20 esc · May 12 Read full story In February 2011, a blueprint for an impact-investing vehicle landed with the head of JPMorgan’s investment bank. It identified a structural flaw with precision 1 : ‘ The tension is making money from a Charitable Org. Therefore the money making parts need to be arms length ’. Within eight months, JPMorgan was building the product, and within a year the Global Health Investment Fund 2  was operational. Jeffrey Epstein wrote that blueprint. The Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment 3  didn’t inherit a generic blended-finance template, but a specific architecture designed through named parties at JPMorgan in 2011 4 , and in private forums at Waddesdon Manor between 2014 and 2018 5 . The G7 sum...