Paul Wells

Maclean’s senior writer Paul Wells writes about politics across Canada and abroad. Except sometimes he ignores politics and writes about music or something else.

Ottawa

Poland: dueling superiorities

I like a line from an academic in this account of Bronislaw Komorowski’s (narrow) (apparent) victory in today’s runoff Polish...

Ottawa

Speaking of coalitions: One big happy family

David Cameron will fulfill his promise to Nick Clegg by holding a referendum on electoral reform. And he will keep his conscience...

Ottawa

Hey look: Introducing the prime minister’s trusty sidekick

It’s summer, and time for another column from the print edition pointing out the obvious: that as Stephen Harper’s time at 24...

Uncategorized

A coalition? Don’t we have one already?

PAUL WELLS: While Merkel’s coalition looks off-balance, Harper seems to be doing fine with Ignatieff as junior coalition partner

On Campus

The smartest guy in the room

Stephen Hawking at the Perimeter Institute

Ottawa

Hey look: Distinguished visiting fellow

From the print edition, this week’s column chronicles the public part of Stephen Hawking’s visit to Perimeter Institute in...

Uncategorized

The smartest guy in the room

PAUL WELLS: Stephen Hawking at the Perimeter Institute

Ottawa

Music: Memoirs

I found myself thinking about this tonight and I suppose it must have been about 17 years, from 1985 to 2002, that I consciously...

Ottawa

Down under, upside down; or, names that rhyme with Mudd

So the Labor caucus in Canberra will vote at 9 a.m. — soon — on whether Kevin Rudd should remain as the party’s leader and...

Ottawa

Gen. McChrystal gets hacked

Paul Wells on the reporter who got NATO’s top soldier in Afghanistan into hot water

Paul Wells

Poland: dueling superiorities

Speaking of coalitions: One big happy family

Hey look: Introducing the prime minister’s trusty sidekick

A coalition? Don’t we have one already?

The smartest guy in the room

Hey look: Distinguished visiting fellow

The smartest guy in the room

Music: Memoirs

Down under, upside down; or, names that rhyme with Mudd

Gen. McChrystal gets hacked

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