Two more obscure ones from the 80s that hardly anybody ever mentions, but I'd take over any of those (except maybe the IT Crowd): Hot Metal - a brilliant satire on tabloid journalism Happy Families -… (View Post)

This would be the France that did its best to destroy Canada long before anybody had heard of Donald Trump? "Vive le Quebec libre"... THAT reliable ally? (View Post)

He's 83 now. At the next election he will be 87. In a country that is supposed to be even more youth-obsessed than ours. If he's a hope it's a frail one. (View Post)

Indeed, and there were people, even in the late 19th century, that did not regard the white race as inherently superior. You can generally find unconventional opinions if you look hard enough. But I … (View Post)

More certainly was unpleasant to our modern sensibilities. An unpleasant bigot and a royal sycophant. But given when and where he was born, anything else would have been truly astonishing. The notion… (View Post)