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Britons are much better off than Iranians, and some people here are spouting off about how successful Iran has been lately. Maybe calibrate your superlatives?

The call to prayer is preaching. It asserts religious dogma.

If they want to play music over a loudspeaker, fine. If they're going to preach by loudspeaker, no.

Now that the UK has full control over itself, UK PMs are in part not being given grace because they're moving too slowly making changes voters want made on matters other than purely economic/fiscal. All the recent headlines were about censorship, highly unsatisfying choices about which people...

I am trying to think of any prior instance I've come across of someone advancing the proposition that moving from resources to services is not entirely a good idea, and coming up short. Usually in Canada we lament our position as "hewers-of-wood-and-drawers-of-water" and dream about moving up...

The UK did not shoot itself in the foot, unless you accept only limited criteria for measuring benefit and cost. Exiting the EU has economic costs. Exiting the EU has political (sovereignty) benefits. Maitres chez nous has immense value. It turned out EU membership imposes risks of...

I expect every discussion like this to eventually start sliding into black-guarding and guilt-by-association attacks and find it's best to meet it head-on and be clear that there will not be apologies and concessions to struggle sessions for things that require neither. This is a discussion of...

The UK has stagnated before. What's lacking is a Thatcher. Ever closer union is stuttering in a lot of countries.

Ah, yes. I'm also Fascistophobic and Marxophobic and Communistophobic, and generally Illiberalophobic. Ideas, all. Repugnant to varying degrees, all. The question isn't why a reasonable person would dislike them, but why anyone would try to put lipstick on pigs.

Turn in your man card. If there was a car in front of you, you were obligated to be trying to pass it. Following isn't allowed.

Climate change (environmental change) is a non-zero threat. Film at 11. It is not an equal threat everywhere, nor one meriting much consideration in some places. I doubt NATO members have to worry about spending to mitigate their own "climate threats". What NATO needs is armed forces capable...

The context is "Canada", not "USA". The USA has a distinctive sizeable Christian minority (Catholic and Protestant) with a vocal and politically powerful sub-minority which is often characterized as "evangelical". But that minority and sub-minority are pretty closely aligned with the...

Not yet it isn't. There are invoices outstanding - contractors are complaining, some alleging they face ruin - and the backstop fund meant to prevent a public bailout is nowhere near the widely-claimed goal. By appearances enough money was raised to cover the total construction cost (including...

If that's what you need, you can try. I have no problem with overt displays of Christianity or Judaism. Their foundations are moderate; their displays are unostentatious; their immoderate fringe fundamentalists are very quiet and quite obviously just want to be left alone. Their mainstream...

It's not freedom of religion if they are trying to impose it on others. I claim that's the agenda behind much of this kind of creep. I observe it in other countries; I'd rather just block it and move on with solving some of the problems we already have. There is enough of our own...

"Christian church sexual abuse" was (might still be) a problem. The fact that it existed/exists and we might not have completely compensated for or eradicated it is not an excuse for tolerating other illiberalities trying to squeeze themselves into the country. Fix what is ours; deny others the...

But we've been doing something about that. Christianity has modernized. The fact that a common retort to a complaint about an Islamic-flavoured abuse is "Oh yeah? What about the Inquisition/Crusades?" highlights in blinding relief the fact that centuries' worth of moderation have been...

It would provide an opportunity for a movie about Canada. "Escape From Victoria".

Everything Trump touches is that way. His bluster is a distraction not worth paying any attention to. I just leave the area whenever he comes on TV; I don't read transcripts of anything he says except when I (rarely) want to confirm whether the way people are spinning some inflammatory...

You're right. The important thing is, process was followed. (Not entirely, since the foundation appears to stiffing the backstop fund requirement.) And Obama does a lot of his own chest-thumping. Of course, it's not a mere presidential library. It's a presidential center, which is not a...