January 20, 2025

Kim Campbell, the first female prime minister of Canada, was right when she said a 47-day-long election campaign (Imagine a campaign of only 47 days!) was not enough time to reconsider the nation’s social programs. But she was wrong to say so.

To succeed pre-eminently in English public life it is necessary to conform either to the popular image of a bookie or of a

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything.