I can fix this place right up

My column in this week’s magazine runs without my photo logo — a substantial aesthetic improvement — and actually forms the basis for a book I was thinking of writing a couple of months ago. That project’s on hold (i.e. probably Not Gonna Happen) so I thought I’d give you the nub of the argument. It is:

• Parliament’s broken.

• The centre of the problem is Question Period, which is appalling.

• It doesn’t have to be appalling.

• So let’s fix it.

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My proposed fixes are designed to produce the largest possible change in outcome with the smallest possible change in practice.

While I’m pointing you to pieces of fine, fine writing, I should also point out that Colleague Feschuk’s column in this week’s magazine continues Scott’s less-than-laudatory coverage of Michael Ignatieff, and is an absolutely dynamite column, chock-full of advice the Ignatious Nation would take, were they wise.