“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.

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.