Ringo Starr
Girl You Know It’s True
Our Rachel Mendleson consults the experts on Stephen Harper’s Starr-turn. Former Rheostatic Dave Bidini proves suspicious.
A gaffe, in reverse
The drug of choice among political journalists is the gaffe. It is either a trivial slip of the tongue — especially, in Michael Kinsley’s immortal definition, when a politician tells the truth — or some trifling but embarrassing incident: a dropped football here, a silly hairnet there, indicative of nothing in particular but invested with all manner of spurious significance by the media herd.
The Commons: Huzzah, Mr. Ignatieff asks a question that is not entirely rhetorical
But never let it be said Parliament is no place for a Ringo joke
Ordinary people
Granted, “ordinary people” may not see much in this, but here’s the Prime Minister making like Ringo Starr with Yo-Yo Ma.