In my latest National Post column I argue that the G7 summit was a festival of empty pomposity because the participants had no idea what constructive purpose it had or even that it should have had one.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I warn that the British are trying to police the Persian Gulf with a navy they don’t have.

“And if any other document is henceforth produced which was made heretofore and which in any kind of way seems to gainsay what is here established, that document shall be cast to mice to gnaw or into the fire to be burned, and he who produces it, whatever his rank, shall be regarded as the sweepings of ashes and confounded with the most ignominious shame and with one accord shunned by all the men who are nearby.”

King Canute, to the monks of Canterbury as part of “The Endowment of a Monastery, 1023” in William L. Sachse English History in the Making