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I have had an amazing time in London. Finally saw the Churchill war rooms – a real War Room! – and it was quite amazing. Did a punk rock tour of Soho, went to Camden Town with my old high school pal Lee Hill, and tonight I am finally seeing

Touché. I deserved that. But it’s still a clusterfuck.

Trump lost. His name wasn’t on any ballot, true. He wasn’t in any race, agreed. This morning, he is what he was yesterday: Donald J. Trump, private citizen. But make no mistake. The stunning outcomes in Tuesday’s midterm elections were a short, sharp repudiation of the once and future Republican

Let them eat cake. In fairness to Marie Antoinette, who was the last Queen of France prior to the Revolution, she probably didn’t even say that. Jean-Jacques Rousseau published an autobiography in 1767, and attributed that infamous phrase to an unidentified “great princess” – and, what’s more, Rousseau actually claimed

Pierre Poilievre had a good week. Nay, a very good week. And he didn’t even have to do anything to get it. The application of the Emergencies Act. The rise in interest rates. And a trip to London. Events, dear boy, events: long-ago British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was asked

Remember the good old days – you know, when conservatives unambiguously opposed Russian aggression and tyranny? And, for that matter, remember when progressives deeply cared about the fate of the oppressed people of the world? Ronald Reagan, who conservatives used to venerate, once said that Russia was “the focus of

 Three hockey truths. One, our kids are never going to play in the NHL. Two, it’s just a game. Three, our kids are never ever going to play in the NHL. I’ve got four kids, three boys and a girl. All of them played hockey. I spent a lot

When a bad person supports you, what should you do? Well, if you’re a normal human, you say you don’t want or need the support of the bad person, and you denounce and renounce them. If you’re a politician, apparently, it’s more complicated. Apparently. When Barack Obama’s pastor was caught

Breaking! #NEW: Township of Puslinch to Rename Swastika Trail pic.twitter.com/H7Nc3akrQF — Daisy Group (@DaisyGrp) September 28, 2022

The female Member of Parliament, a former cabinet minister, looked afraid. She was pale. She was describing sitting alone in a Winnipeg hotel room, months earlier, reading debased threats from an animal hiding behind a fake name. She was terrified, the MP said. The man said he was going to

The biggest televised event in human history, it is suggested, was Monday’s funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The biggest social media event in the past week, it is speculated, was Justin Trudeau’s rendering of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ You’d have to, um, be living an unreal life, one escaped from reality, to