Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Brexit caused this political instability? Surely not!

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Hard to believe, but it's been ten years, almost to the day, since the fateful Brexit vote, and the start of Britain's "messy d...
Sunday, June 21, 2026

The most, and least, liked countries in the world

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Liking is a very subjective thing, especially when it comes to something as amorphous as a country. But the Democracy Perception Index does ...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Ten years later. MAID in Canada is still strongly supported

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At the ten-year anniversary of Canada's Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) law, there has been a flurry of articles about how successful...

Anti-immigrant sentiment does not extend to soccer

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If the World Cup has done nothing else, it has drawn attention to immigration, and, for once, no-one seems keen on criticizing and protestin...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Trump? Isolated? Say it ain't true!

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Here's Mr. Trump at the G7 meeting .  Everyone else seems vey animated and engaged. But does no-one want to speak to Trump? Say it ain...
Monday, June 15, 2026

What has America achieved in Iran?

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It's taken four months, and not a "few days" as advertised, but Donald Trump finally has his Iran Deal (or, rather, a memoran...

Trump outdoes himself in the vulgarity stakes

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It's hard to keep up with candidates for peak idiocy in Trump World, but yesterday's mixed martial arts (MMA) extravaganza on the Wh...

Kash Patel is the archetypical chud

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My new favourite word is "chud", although I confess I have never used it IRL (in real life). The word "chud"  supposedly...