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The sticker affixed to the London Calling album shrink-wrap, so many years ago, boldly declared that the Clash were “the only band that matters.” If that is true – if…
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The oldest conspiracy theory
“Conspiracy theories” are neither. They’re not “theories,” for starters. Almost always, they are fiction. There’s nothing theoretical about them. They are deliberate, calculated falsehoods designed to promote lies. They aren’t…
This is the moment – choose to oppose hate
That’s the moment. You wake up on Sunday morning, and pick up your phone, and there’s a photo of someone you know, covered in blood. His head, his face, his…
Arsen and the rest of us
I know Arsen. He helped me enormously with my new book The Hidden Hand. I am shocked, truly, by what happened in Australia but grateful he survived. God bless him…
The triumph of light over darkness
The triumph of light over darkness. That’s all it means, really: perseverance, faith. It’s a characteristic of just about every religion, when you think of it. Hope. Hope for something…
The evil within
Attacks on Jews at Toronto’s Metropolitan University. Students at a California school forming a swastika with their bodies on a football field, alongside a quote from Adolf Hitler. A far-Right…
The British Trump
LONDON – Is this Nigel Farage’s “grab ’em by the pussy” moment? For those who were asleep or in a coma in October 2016: one month before the U.S. presidential…
Going underground
LONDON – This city’s subway system – the Underground or the Tube, they variously call it – is simply enormous. Millions of people use it every day. In all, it…
Hyde Park
Painted a bit I saw on our walk at Hyde Park today. Gouache. I like it.
Those anti-Israel, pro-Palestine X accounts? They’re fake.
Elon Musk’s X has pulled back the curtain on thousands of accounts found on the micro-blogging platform. The results have been shocking, entertaining and – for anti-Israel and/or antisemitic propagandists…
Just a flag? So’s a swastika.
What’s a flag? A bit of fabric. A warning, a welcoming. A symbol of something, fluttering atop a pole. In the United States, Donald Trump has signed one of his…
The monster in the Oval Office – and his victims
She begins: “Weeks before my seventeenth birthday, I was walking toward the Mar-a-Lago spa, on my way to work, when a car slowed behind me. I wish I could say…
The view from Nova Scotia: sorry, Pierre
HALIFAX – In Ottawa, the political centre of all things, Chris d’Entremont is a super big deal. In Nova Scotia, the province from which d’Entremont hails? Not so much, bud.…