In my latest Loonie Politics column I berate Canadian “conservative” politicians for being as clueless about how to avoid wedge issues as they are spineless about how to approach them.
In my latest National Post column I goggle at the sense of entitlement of our Governor General and leftist politicians.
“The only thing I am afraid of is fear.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“Reform’s UA initiative currently possesses all the momentum of a fat guy sitting shirtless in a lawn chair.”
Scott Feschuk in National Post May 27, 1999 [so it turned out not to be true, but it’s still a great metaphor].
“there is scarcely anything that could offend me in modern England which is not far more offensive in modern Germany. It is there that these things have had their real success; it is there that they will have their real failure. You may say that Germany leads the modern world. You may, if you like, say that Germany is the modern world. But, if that be so, what is called the modern world is, amid general rejoicings, coming to an end. With all its mirthless cynicism, with all its unmanly militarism, with its sham science and shifty diplomacy, with its excuses for the powerful and its routine for the poor, with its long words of explanation and its very short cuts in conduct, with all its care of the self, and all its carelessness of the soul, what some call the Modern Spirit is cast out of heaven like Lucifer, Son of the Morning. It is cut down to the earth, that did weaken the nations.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News, September 9, 2016, quoted in “GKC on Scripture * Conducted by Peter Floriani” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
In my latest Epoch Times column I mock the notion that NATO can use “pressure” to stop Trudeau from being irresponsible, smug and daffy.
“The Tories are a hollow shell, but at least they have a shell.”
Editorial in National Post June 7, 2001 that arguably overestimated their condition
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Justin Trudeau has reverted to type on squeezing cash out of Google and Meta for Canadian media, and it ain’t pretty.