I recently came across a promotional video for “The Canadian”, a showpiece passenger train running between Toronto and Vancouver with “personalized service from a dedicated Prestige Concierge”. That begged the question: “What’s in a name?”. The answer is: “What you make of it.”… Read the rest
Apart from the inevitable aches and pains, one of the drawbacks to aging is that you think the singers who were your soundtrack are forever the age they were when you first heard them, and only really accept that they’re not when they die. And so it was this week with Gordon Lightfoot.… Read the rest
Nothing can be done about youth being “wasted on the young”, but squandering the power of moral outrage on the ridiculous is waste to the nth degree. Beset as we are by screeching to ban books for “woke” agendas, universities more focused on ensuring students don’t feel “uncomfortable” than in sparking critical thinking and a Press willing to quote lies in the name of “balance”, it’s time to rehabilitate the Luddites, if only in spirit.… Read the rest
Here’s a simple test to validate the headline of this post.
From 2014 to March this year, 26,334 MIGRANTS/REFUGEES/EX-PATS died or went missing trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Turkey and North Africa.
Now rank the capitalised labels according to the chord they struck.
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This may be hard to believe, but there was a time when “the school of hard knocks” was considered as good as a formal education. Today, experiencing and learning from the vicissitudes of life has been replaced by metaphorically swaddling people in cotton wool and providing them with ear plugs and blinkers.… Read the rest