Somewhat surprisingly, the best summary I've seen of the current scandal of Beijing interference in #CanPol comes from #TheSpectator :

"Justin Trudeau’s government has been compromised by the Chinese Communist Party and Canada’s democracy is in jeopardy. This is a startling claim, all the more so for the fact that Canadian intelligence officials are the ones making it."

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-justin-trudeaus-government-was-compromised-by-the-ccp/

#JustinTrudeau #Liberals
#cdnpoli #Beijing #PRC #China #CCP

@donald
Mr. Zhu is a Canadian lawyer who has been studying for his LL.D. at Oxford. He has published an article at the #ConservativeHome website, which is focused on the #Tory side of #ukpol , a bit like #TheSpectator . The website seems respectable and has been around since the #DavidCameron years TTBOMK. Don't read the article if you don't want to, but it does discuss the problems of the Canadian military.

Isn't there a way to block the cookies?

@yuanyi_z

#CanPol

Most-read 2022: Why is Canada euthanising the poor?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/most-read-2022-why-is-canada-euthanising-the-poor/

#YuanYiZhu
#canpol #euthanasia #MAiD #DoctorsKillingPatients
#TheSpectator

"[M]y feelings are motivated by raw, undiluted, full-fat-no-soy hatred of the Tory party. It has grown to an unquenchable loathing."

"I know blue-collar small business owners who spend their days inveighing against crime, mass immigration and wokeism but would sooner see a gang of non-binary Albanian drug-dealers move in next door than vote Tory."

The 2024 election will be cataclysmic for the Conservatives
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/voters-want-to-hurt-the-tories-at-the-next-election/

#tories #ukpol
#TheSpectator

Fareed Zakaria, interviews The #Guardian's Luke Harding and The Spectator's Owen Matthews on the latest in #Ukraine.

#TheSpectator #theguardian #LukeHarding #UkraineNews #FareedZakaria

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2022/12/11/exp-gps-1211-russia-ukraine-panel-long-war.cnn

#Energytransition #TheSpectator

https://www.spectator.co.uk/illustration/we-cant-afford-a-heated-discussion/

"Careful study of the period might prove enlightening for both sides, but in practice there is little prospect of left and right reaching agreement about what school children should learn about the civil war and Franco’s dictatorship. The Spanish people have many fine qualities but on the whole it’s probably fair to say that the ability to listen with an open mind to an opposing point of view is not the first that springs to mind."

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/spain-growing-culture-war-over-general-franco/

#espol #GeneralFranco
#TheSpectator

@spectator@mstdn.foxfam.club An unexpected take from #TheSpectator .

Oligarchy in America
https://spectator.us/topic/oligarchy-america-rome-athens-jeff-bezos/

#oligarchy #uspol
#TheSpectator

#MichaelOakeshott "did not believe that the practical world could be understood by the rational mind alone. He was thus a fierce critic of central planning, of the ability of a government to solve the problems people could not solve themselves. He saw the hideous, self-defeating paradox of trying to change the everyday world from a distance based on a theory."

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/taking-the-world-as-it-is/

#AndrewSullivan
#conservatism
#TheSpectator