Canada Is Not So Much

There Are Few Tribes More Loathsome Than The American Right, And Their Vicious Use Of The Shortcomings In The Nhs To Attack Barack Obama's Attempts At Health Reform Are A Useful Reminder.

Disney World Has Acquired By Now Something Of The Air Of A National Shrine. American Parents Who Don't Take Their Children There Sense Obscurely That They Have Failed In Some Fundamental Way, Like Muslims Who Never Made It To Mecca.

I've Been Intrigued By 'le Monde' Ever Since Work Took Me To Paris Once, And I Noted That On A Day When There Was Some Huge Worldwide Story, The Paper Led Its Front Page On Some Cabinet Changes In Turkey. It Implied A Magnificent Disdain For The Quotidian Folderol Of Mere News.

Until Now Their Line Has Been That The Tories Are Incapable Of Doing Anything About Poverty, And Aren't Interested In Doing It In The First Place. By Contrast, Labour Says, We Are Also Incapable Of Doing Anything About Poverty, But Would Dearly Love To Do Something. If We Knew What.

They're Called Virgin Trains Because They Don't Go All The Way.