OttawaSnubwatch: Duck or you’ll get pool spray all over you!Joint Obama-Gordon Brown press conference cancelled ; instead, the two leaders will get a "pool spray," described as "a few...
OttawaHis badThe New York Times on Barack Obama’s admission. The primary weapon for a president who really intends to clean up Washington is...
Ottawa’United, however fleetingly, in framing a joint future’Using the example of Gordon Brown, the Telegraph’s Mary Riddell explains how even the least mesmerizing of leaders—see all of...
OttawaBehold the ridiculousness of this existenceFor some months now, the Prime Minister’s Office has been conducting periodic briefings for reporters—usually bureau chiefs, but...
GeneralThey don’t draw them like that anymoreAnd now, for no good reason, the most unnecessarily revolting editorial cartoon we’ve seen in ages:
OttawaNew Labour indeedGordon Brown gets a good review . The reviewer gets to polish his resumé . UPDATE: At the Grauniad , a columnist connects the...
OttawaStatements that are never true (an occasional series)"It doesn’t get worse than this." — Guardian columnist Martin Kettle , after a Scottish Labour prime minister managed to lose a...
UncategorizedBTC: Of course there’s no sense speaking above our levelWhat must it be like to live in a grown-up country? I bet it’s nice. I bet they have exotic foods there. Like Marmite. In any...
UncategorizedWorld o’ EuronewsGordon Brown: Seriously not doing well . Sarko: Ditto . Turns out fantastic set design isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Tusk:...