Margaret Thatcher

At one time, grumpy and misanthropic was close to a job description for British PMs: Thatcher and Churchill were cheerful?

A fiasco for first-past-the-post would be bad news for its future in Canada

Newsmakers of the week

The BBC , Daily Mail , Daily Mirror , Telegraph and Guardian all pay their respects to John Baird’s cat, but the finest headline...

Condolences are apparently due to the Transport Minister.

Newsmakers of the week

Andrew Sullivan posted this video last week, looking to make a point about democratic accountability and Sarah Palin. Whatever...