In my latest National Post column I say Britain needs a Tory victory because (a) Corbyn is a loathsome anti-Semite (b) democracy requires you to respect referendum results and (c) self-government requires a functioning parliament, which the UK hasn’t had since 2016.
“What I have applied to language, is still more justly applicable to sentiments and manners. The passions, the sources from which these must spring in all their modifications, are generally the same in all ranks and conditions, all countries and ages; and it follows, as a matter of course, that the opinions, habits of thinking, and actions, however influenced by the peculiar state of society, must still, upon the whole, bear a strong resemblance to each other.”
Dedicatory Epistle to Sir Walter Scott Ivanhoe
In the National Post I ridicule attempts by Britain’s Labour Party to blame the latest Islamist attack on the Conservatives being soft on crime and terrorism.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say Canadian conservatives have to start winning arguments if they expect to start winning elections.
“Human nature, Thucydides argued, is constant and hence predictable.”
R.M. Ogilvie in the Introduction to Livy The Early History of Rome, adding that Livy used that insight as "the framework of his history."
In my latest National Post column I say “How dare you?” to those who pretend not to see what’s happening in Hong Kong.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the bloated Trudeau cabinet full of ministers of diversity and communities and other such nonsense is no less ominous for being foolish.