Things we worried about in the 1960sA bit late to the Ngram party , but here are the English references to "partisanship" between 1800 and 2008.
The enduring challenge of the opposition leaderBruce Anderson sees little political advantage to be found for Michael Ignatieff in the economy. In case you didn’t notice and...
The shorter Parliament, the unscrutinized governmentAs Ned Franks notes , Parliament’s 119-day sitting last year was in line with a steady decline that goes back decades—see my...
The historic unpleasantness of the Vaughan by-electionJulian Fantino doesn’t let 2010 pass without explaining that Hitler reference .
And we’re backSo let us begin 2011 with wordles . I note only that the Conservative "word cloud" includes "Steven," whoever he is.
Dept. of office memos: Guy Giorno heads for the exitFrom the Inkless Emailbox, a forwarded email from Stephen Harper’s chief of staff on his last day on the job: From: Guy Giorno...
Best of 2010: slim pickings, in a good wayBest-of-2010 lists have been filling the entertainment pages of my recent morning papers (yes, I still read the paper on...