In my latest National Post column I say the routinely grandiose rhetoric emanating from Prime Minister Mark Carney is a warning sign about the routinely grandiose way he thinks.
In my latest Epoch Times column I suggest in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination that we all ask ourselves whether our own interventions in public debate are designed to lead people back to the light or drive them further into the darkness.
“Nigel Farage stood up in the House of Commons yesterday to ask how many British troops will be promised to Ukraine. A reasonable question. He was dismissed as being a ‘Putin apologist’ by both Conservatives and Labour. The uniparty are still two cheeks of the same ugly old arse.”
A post on X from someone I am not familiar with on March 4, 2025 [https://x.com/darrengrimes_/status/1896864773389869349] and yes, it bends my rule about vulgarity in public discourse but it’s funny and apposite enough to deserve it.
“The initial Canadian Expeditionary force of twenty thousand [in World War I] was organized by Sam Hughes, who was, as Borden informed him, ‘beset by two unceasing enemies. Expecting a revelation, he was intensely disappointed when I told him that they were his tongue and his pen.’”
Conrad Black Rise to Greatness: The History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present
In my latest Loonie Politics column I follow up on my argument in the Epoch Times about the Liberals promising lavish austerity because they think all spending is investment by examining a flood of press releases boasting of things any rational exercise in fiscal restraint would at least have postponed if not cancelled.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the fatal flaw in the Carney cabinet’s lavish austerity program is their conviction that almost any government spending, however trivial and absurd or massive and wrongheaded, pays big dividends so we can’t afford not to.
“We shall have no more representatives of the sovereign making the doctrine of the Charleses and Jameses the standard by which to govern British subjects in the nineteenth century.”
Robert Baldwin of Baldwin-LaFontaine fame on their winning decisively in the Jan. 24, 1848 elections in Upper and Lower Canada, quoted by Conrad Black Rise to Greatness: The History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present
“Sam Hughes, at militia, was a human grenade with the pin pulled…”
Part of his assessment of Robert Borden’s cabinet in Conrad Black Rise to Greatness: The History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present