Serota's politically astute arguments — that the project could help generate the redevelopment of Southwark, just as Royal Festival Hall had done in the nineteen-fifties for the South Bank area to the west of it; and that London was the only major capital city that didn't have a museum of modern art — produced a fifty-million-pound matching grant from the lottery.
And hadn't the chairman of the Social Democrats, Sigmar Gabriel, the only prominent politician to counter the substance of Mr. Sarrazin's claims with astute arguments, met with resistance from within his own party when he proposed expelling the unloved comrade?
It's tough to watch the Family Rain impersonate the White Stripes when you know that, elsewhere, you can watch pig racing, or visit The Pool of Naked Liberation, or catch David Icke fudging astute arguments on western imperialism with claims that we're all holograms.
Her wartime diaries, published for the first time, reveal an astute woman who relishes political argument.
By John Cassidy February 24 , 2014In Monday's Financial Times, Ed Luce, one of the most astute Washington columnists, made the argument that President Obama's 2009 stimulus package, despite its evident success in preventing an economic cataclysm, might well mark the end of Keynesian stimulus policies, at least on this side of the Atlantic.
In Monday's Financial Times, Ed Luce, one of the most astute Washington columnists, made the argument that President Obama's 2009 stimulus package, despite its evident success in preventing an economic cataclysm, might well mark the end of Keynesian stimulus policies, at least on this side of the Atlantic.
"Learn to control yourself," said Ms. Baldrige, who says most political arguments are more emotional than astute, "and just change the subject".
Yet he is politically astute and does not instantly dismiss the legitimate arguments from allies who worry about the cost of that stand.
An astute observer, Jonathan Carver, called out the flaw in this argument, stating "it's not about training wheels.
Yet if the arguments are sometimes frustrating, the book is a page-turner with astute accounts of Bach's life folded in.
