Canada
Underrated: Stephen Harper
Canada’s unsung Conservative prime minister is shaking up his country’s flabby political culture and standing up for freedom abroad
The Strange Death of Liberal Canada
The darling of progressive intellectuals, Michael Ignatieff has just led his party to a shattering and possibly terminal election defeat
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Quebec’s approach to garbage disposal shows that political correctness is thriving in Canada
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?