It’s a line I heard recently on 60 Minutes, a pronouncement from British-American political commentator and podcaster Andrew Sullivan. It struck me as having a ...
It’s a line I heard recently on 60 Minutes, a pronouncement ...
Ho-hum, another Throne Speech marks the start of a new parliamentary session. I have seen and heard a number over the years, maybe as many as 50, dating back to...
As the clever old saw goes: if you want to kill an idea, even a good one, send it to a committee for study and recommendation.
The tactic came to mind when the ...
For those who have been asking: yes. I am vaccinated, and, yes, I am going for a third booster jab. I believe in the efficacy of vaccinations in the fight again...
These two words loom large today: if only. If only everyone could agree, or at least come together to reach a consensus on how we must combat Covid-19 and the d...
It has been said that there are no friends in politics, only allies who have common interests that can and do shift from time to time. In fact, as former US pre...
“We have found the enemy, and it is not each other.”
— Heather McGhee, The Sum Of Us
This could easily get out of hand — and here I am referring not onl...
Larry Dennis. Heather Jacobs Matthews. Heather Thomas.
You have only to mention their names and people immediately know who and what you are talking about. Thei...
Cup Match returns. It will not be your father’s Cup Match or that of your mother, for that matter. Instead, it will be one for the ages — thanks again to Covid-...
We are more divided than we have ever been is the claim. But a claim is all it is, all part of the theatre of politics brought on by the pandemic in which we fi...
It’s too little. It’s too much. Or it’s never enough. Or it’s never quite right. Call it the Goldilocks principle of government, folks — and, even worse, when s...
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