“After the gleam of exaggerated hopes, what Kipling called the Gods of the Copybook Headings have come back to croak out their ancient saws, whose only merit is that they happen to be true.”

The Economist December 22, 1990

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the familiar tone of the weird rhetoric from the Communist Chinese government should alert us to other familiar obnoxious features of that regime.

With Alex Pierson on “On Point” I discuss the brittleness behind the brutality in China’s crackdown on Hong Kong protestors.

In my latest National Post column I say our government’s mealy-mouthed equivocation on the struggle for freedom in Hong Kong makes a mockery of the notion that Canada is “back”.

On Tuesday I did an interview with Bridge City News about my Loonie Politics column on Canada’s lack of urgency in replacing obsolete CF-18 fighter planes.

Here’s a long-overdue link to a talk I gave at RCMI in March on how Canada’s traditional neglect of national security is even more dangerous than usual in a high-tech world.