Are you enjoying your newfound global tranquility? If so you can thank Barack Obama. At least, that’s what he says. Click here to read the rest.

We face a multiple choice question on prostitution: Criminalize it for both parties, legalize it, or pursue the “Nordic model” where it’s illegal to buy sex but not to sell it. All have drawbacks but you must pick one. Click here to read the rest.

The mess in Iraq is graphic proof that hard choices don’t get easier if you avoid them. Partition into Shi’ite, Sunni and Kurdish countries is still the least awful option. And while it would be a lot harder than eight years ago, no one said geopolitics would be easy. Click here to read the rest.

Anyone feel like gallivanting off to Paris for a day? Eh? Too much jet lag to be useful the first day? And too expensive? Well, you’d make a lousy politician. Click here to read the rest.

Lately I’m having trouble taking the news seriously. Perhaps you’d care to join me. Click here to read the rest.

When it rains in northeastern France, to this day, bits and pieces of the First World War come to the surface. And to this day, people collect them, clean then, exhibit them and honour them. Remembrance does not fade with the passing years. Click here to read the rest.

It’s very nice to come to France and have my preconceptions confirmed. Non, non, don’t look at me like that. I mean in a good way. Click here to read the rest.

Easter is about death and resurrection. Also you get little candy eggs because life should be fun. But it is fitting that it was on Easter 1917, rising from the grotesque mass slaughter of the First World War, that Canada became a nation at Vimy Ridge. Click here to read the rest.