Jay Currie

The Republican leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said: “We have had before us this whole question of the viability of the American automobile manufacturers. None of us want to see them go down, but very few of us had anything to do with the dilemma that they have created for themselves.”

Mr. McConnell added: “The [...]

I had hoped to bring you a little more fine detail about Cherie Blair’s menstrual cycle this week — I had provisional charts mapped out and so on. But at the last moment I came over a little queasy. Obviously all of us need to know precisely when she is ovulating, in case we should [...]

The Globe and Mail is asking for nominations for the fifty best books in English. It is good fun to see what people send in – I suspect the Globe will rather wish that they had said “written in English” as there are a lot of people who figure that “War and Peace” is a [...]

At one point a few years ago I made much of my living reviewing books for newspapers. Mainly history, biography and science but i was perfectly willing to review novels or whatever came to hand. The reviewing market has pretty much vanished in Canada and in much of the United States and I have moved [...]