“D is a very weak-minded fellow I am afraid and, like the feather pillow, bears the marks of the last person who has sat on him.”
“Lord Haig” re “Lord Derby” in 1918, quoted by Mark Steyn in the Daily Telegraph August 1, 2004
In my latest National Post column I say the cycle of COVID lockdowns is like a bad remake of Groundhog Day, where no lessons get learned
The German ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Baron von Tschirschky “was not much liked in Vienna: he was a stiff north German of the sort who agreed with Bismarck that ‘the Bavarian is a cross between the Austrian and homo sapiens’.”
Norman Stone “Archduke Franz Ferdinand Survives Sarajevo” in Andrew Roberts, ed., What Might Have Been
In my latest Loonie Politics column I write an open letter to Xi Jinping asking him to put his megalomaniac geopolitical ambitions on hold until Canada gets some new submarines in about 20 years.
On “Counterpoint” with Tanya Granic Allen I discussed how to inspire future generations with the story of liberty.
In my latest National Post column I honour all those who answered the call because, as the Duke of Wellington said after Waterloo, the only thing worse than a battle won is a battle lost.
In my latest Epoch Times column I reflect for Remembrance Day on the moving ritual of sounding the Last Post at the Menin Gate every single night for 77 years and counting.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say we can’t tell whether Quebec is “a nation” until we decide what that term means… and while we’re at it maybe we should try to figure out whether Canada still fits the definition.