Crude sacrifices
Prime Minister Mark Carney has caused his government to serve oil barons rather than the people who elected it. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith made that choice long ago. Now British…
Data Localization is the Answer. What Was the Question?
Last week I gave a talk at Chatham House for an event on ‘Is Data Localisation the Answer to Data Sovereignty? Location, Control and the Architecture of Trust’, organised in…
A new Mare for London?
A horse in a field looks at a building
Is Climate Inaction from Peak Individualism?
A recent article in The Guardian asked one of the UK’s top climate scientists, Professor Ed Hawkins, to bust the biggest myths about climate change. He tells us we can’t…
Phytoplankton Can Save the Planet
When it comes to absorbing carbon you can do a lot worse than plankton. Yes, those tiny specks of flora that float around the ocean can take on a lot…
Uh oh….
open.substack.com/pub/thegrimhistorian/p/has-america-crossed-the-asshole-threshold it’s happened before. It’ll happen again.
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of July 20, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 20, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:US Appeals Court Revives Lawsuits Tying Tylenol Use in Pregnancy to Autism and…
$&#% your fascist pancakes! An Alberta moment
Like her hero Donald Trump, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has always understood that populist movements like her United Conservative Party are based more on tribal identity than serious policy. Indeed,…
Carney, Smith and Eby’s climate betrayal
Governments acknowledge climate science, then pursue policies that directly contradict it. They transfer public wealth to immensely profitable corporations, encourage greater fossil-fuel dependence, and leave ordinary people to bear the…
Trumpty-Dumpty trolls for Tariff
A trolly Trump demands an entrance fee from Canadian smoke.
Elbows Down And Hands Up?
In the old westerns, bandits would board trains and demand passengers turn over all their money upon pain of death. Everyone complied, the bandits happy with their take and the…
What If The Berlin Airlift Had Been The Model
What if, instead of using its vast industrial might to become the world’s dominant imperial power, the United States had developed an equally strong military whose combat capacity could be…
Sunday Funday: Some posts about the wildfires. Plus good posts, funny posts, getting old(er), Carney hat trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers and World Cup Stories
First, a few more posts about those wildfires: View on Threads View on Threads This is priceless!From Kier AtkinsonTweet of the day…… - Cole BennettRead on Substack Feeling exactly the…
Saturday Photo: Mellow Yellow, Cool Blue..
The yellow loose-strife blooms are nearly all exhausted, but they bloomed for more than a month. Now their place is being taken by hostas and creeping bellflower. The latter is…
Round-up: just some political cartoons, plus some commentary about the week
Dali - Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) Just some cartoons and comments on the week - and the Dali painting seemed appropriate...Canadian wildfires The Toronto Star…
What we pretend not to see
I recently stumbled across an American website: A Moveable Feed from buttondown.com. It promises to deliver "Blunt, funny takes on today’s biggest stories from a recovering DC insider." This week,…
RCMP’s decades-old Tommy Douglas files remain secret
The RCMP was particularly suspicious of people associated with peace movements—and of political leaders willing to speak openly with people across the political spectrum. In the eyes of Canada’s security…
Wars not make one great
Anyone of a certain age knows that line, delivered by Frank Oz through the character Yoda in the best episode of George Lucas's Star Wars saga, The Empire Strikes Back.Christopher…
Musical interlude
Fluke - Hang Tough
The U.S. “dismantles” the world order
In Prime Minister Carney’s acclaimed Davos speech, he talked about a “rupture” in the rules-based... The post The U.S. “dismantles” the world order first appeared on Views from the Beltline.