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The Dorchester Review Cumulative Index has arrived. This is the first instalment.

By Mark F. Proudman CANADIAN NATIONALISM works in favour of the left, as demonstrated by the election of Apr. 28. The nationalist reaction to President Trump’s 51st state and annexation talk propelled the Liberals, not long ago written off, back into power for the fourth time, over the more right-wing Conservatives.  Often considered a right-wing phenomenon, in Canada left-wing parties speak the language of nationalism more easily and more authentically than the parties of the right.  This has not always been the case. Canadian nationalism has been a nationalism of the left for about 60 years.  For most of the...

Is November 20 no longer Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day? And what was Sir John A. Macdonald's actual birthdate?

Every constitutional, or institutional change, billed as reform, in the UK, Canada, and elsewhere in the Commonwealth in the last 60 years has made government worse, writes John Pepall.

JOHN McCrae’s great poem "In Flanders Fields" (1915) has been distorted by what is now the most popular voice and instrumental version.