Vance has an enormous intellectual vanity, even by a politician's standards. I am sure he would be happy taking on the pope on doctrine, which most other people would think was the pope's s… (View Post)

. Everybody was a Catholic before some of them sided with Henry VIII (View Post)

Also I think Trudeau is perceived to have handled the Trump threat well. Which means some Canadians reviewing their very low opinion of him. (View Post)

. I agree with this. Being opposed to assisted dying in principle is a perfectly valid moral position to take. But if you see assisted dying as a mercy in at least some cases, making it very difficul… (View Post)

FPT I think the most important effect of the King and Country debate was that the German government took this as carte blanche, that the British wouldn't fight. When it came to it, they did of c… (View Post)