Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor, Lord Nigel Lawson, has died at the age of 91. The former Conservative MP—whose political career lasted almost five decades—passed away on Monday. Leading the many tributes to the Tory “giant” was Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who said he hung a picture of Lawson on his wall during his…
Truss’s Resignation a Symptom of Conservative Crisis in the Anglosphere
October 21, 2022
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Commentary The resignation of Liz Truss after barely six weeks as the UK prime minister is seen by many commentators as the consequence of pursuing “extremist, experimental” economic policies. Yet Sir Humphrey Appleby—of “Yes Prime Minister” fame—would have described Truss as “very courageous” in pursuing free market polices, which are now almost universally panned by…
Truss Resignation a Symptom of Conservative Crisis in the Anglosphere
October 21, 2022
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Commentary The resignation of Liz Truss after barely six weeks as the UK prime minister is seen by many commentators as the consequence of pursuing “extremist, experimental” economic policies. Yet Sir Humphrey Appleby—of “Yes Prime Minister” fame—would have described Truss as “very courageous” in pursuing free market polices, which are now almost universally panned by…
William Brooks: On the Passing of Elizabeth II: Can the Anglo-American Legacy be Restored?
September 20, 2022
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Commentary North Americans of my generation inherited a world of relative peace and opportunity. We received our good fortune through the toil, courage, and sacrifice of ancestors, grandparents, and parents who worked and served through centuries of pioneer settlement, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. Despite a lingering Cold War with…
How Much Credit Should History Give Mikhail Gorbachev?
Commentary Upon meeting Mikhail Gorbachev for the first time in 1984, just prior to his becoming general secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher described him as “a man we can do business with.” Over the course of the 1980s, the world would come to know Gorbachev, the…
Boris Johnson Seeks to Move on From Partygate With New Right to Buy Offer
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out plans to allow housing association tenants to buy their properties at substantial discounts and will also open the door for people on low incomes to use housing benefit money to obtain mortgages. Speaking in the Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool, the prime minister unveiled the biggest boost to…
Margaret Thatcher Statue in Her Hometown Vandalised Twice in 2 Weeks
A statue of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been vandalised for the second time since it was erected in her hometown two weeks ago, with red paint spilled over it and a communist symbol spray-painted on fences surrounding the monument. The act of vandalism took place in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on the evening of…
John Robson: People Move to Canada to Be Canadian, Not Hyphenated Canadians
Commentary The other day I happened to have commercial dealings with a guy whose name and accent made clear he was from Russia. So here’s what I told him about the invasion of Ukraine: nothing. Not because I don’t care about Ukraine. I do, on humanitarian and strategic grounds. The reason I didn’t give Boris…
Margaret Thatcher Statue Egged and Booed Within Hours of Installation in Hometown
A statue of the first British female prime minister has been egged and booed within hours after it was erected in her hometown on Sunday. Less than two hours after the 20-foot-tall statue of Baroness Margaret Thatcher was lowered onto its 10-foot-high granite plinth in Grantham, Lincolnshire, a protester threw eggs from behind a temporary fence surrounding…
The ‘Strategic Narcissism’ of Invoking the Emergencies Act
Commentary An American three-star general and former national security advisor to President Trump has coined the term “strategic narcissism” to describe the ambitions and the failings undergirding Russia’s unopposed invasion of Ukraine. Here in strategically invisible Canada, where our foreign policy is played entirely for domestic consumption, H.R. McMaster’s telling phrase has tactical adaptability for…
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