Sir Winston Churchill was walking with destiny and the times favoured him. He himself paved the way to eternal fame by writing brilliant, inside accounts of his own times. Historians choose their subjects and necessarily have to select evidence. Churchill brought this to a high art.
Up to 250 ISIS Jihadis took part in slaughtering 30,000 Yazidi men and enslaving 7,000 Yazidi women, then returned to live in Canada. Where are the lawyers, judges and activists calling for their investigation and trial?
Harris’ campaign platform, the Common Sense Revolution, was a radical document. But surely, I thought then, its more radical elementswould be replaced with middle-of-the-road policies, the hallmarks of previous Progressive Conservative regimes. Instead, I was surprised.