Hear, hear!

"It's not dark yet, but it's getting there". (Bob Dylan) “I do have reasons for hope”. (Jane Goodall) I acknowledge the darkness, but I choose HOPE and am proud to serve on Jane's Council for Hope. Get in touch to help out! janeslegacy.org/council-for-ho…

The misery and suffering now being visited on the people of Pakistan are unimaginable and heartbreaking. All governments in the developed world must step up and render assistance. The scale of this humanitarian catastrophe is unfathomable. bbc.com/news/world-asi…

On her last day on the job, Michelle Bachelet (UN Human Rights Commission) says what the rest of the free world has known for years! Why did she wait this long? bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

I wonder why so many critics of the regime have such an affinity for leaning precariously out of open windows and other thrill-seeking activities. Such a curious correlation! bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

When asked why I spend so much time reading far-right op-eds, my usual response is, "Because Mel Brooks isn't making any more movies these days."

If there was a remake of Blazing Saddles, I'd never have to read the Federalist again.

Absolutely.

She was a force for good and a pillar of modern liberal constitutionalism and a moral and institutional bulwark against the forces of democratic backsliding advancing throughout the West. Her passing not only saddens me; it worries me too. RIP Elizabeth R. God HELP the King!

Long live the King! King Carlos, that is. Absolutely out of this world! via The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/09/09/spo…

King Carlos I. The new US Open champion and the youngest World Number 1 in tennis history. bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/6…

As if there aren’t enough reasons in this world for a broken heart. Here is one more. Feeling sadness and fury. bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

And then, on another scale of evil . .(as though there are scales). . there is this. That we have allowed this to occur in our time, on our watch as global citizens means that you have learned nothing from history.m.youtube.com/watch?v=scagf9… bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

As usual, Roger Waters is out of his depth, expounding ignorantly on the strength and credit of his otherwise brilliant art. Better he should just stay out of politics and retreat to that hallowed room in which he can be Comfortably Numb. bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

My latest: “If you knew what we knew”, the tyrant’s favourite defence, will not be available to the government. By the time the Emergencies Act inquiry is done, we will know what they knew — and whether what they knew was enough to justify it. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Once again, Coyne nails it. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

⁦Sean Fine⁩’s Globe and Mail article on the use of the Notwithstanding Clause (which includes a reference to my own reaction to Ford’s latest assault on fundamental freedoms) theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

My keynote address - "Degrading Norms: Crisis of Legitimacy or Just Manners? - to the Massey College conference held on January 18, 2023 in Toronto, The Unwritten Constitution: Conventions, Traditions & Norms in our Populist Age.  youtube.com/watch?v=N7oOZy…

Until today, I have been an avowed atheist. But the news of Don Lemon and Tucker Carlson being fired on the same day has caused me to reconsider my position.