Reading Time: 3 minutes Eisenhower was cool about going, but at least he learned who had replaced Stalin
Author: Pat Murphy
One, two, three o’clock, four o’clock rock
Reading Time: 3 minutes The birth of post-war youth culture can be marked with the release of Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock
Greece is learning what giving up sovereignty really means
Reading Time: 3 minutes Absent its own currency and the ability to conduct an independent monetary policy, no country can be really sovereign
Popes, terrorists, politicians and hypocrites
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sometimes the reaction to a news story is more important than the story itself
Don’t bet the farm on a Clinton/Bush rerun
Reading Time: 3 minutes Bush is a long way from a nomination and hairline cracks are appearing in the Clinton campaign
Napoleon’s Waterloo was 200 years ago
Reading Time: 3 minutes But it may have been better for Europe if he had won
Magna Carta 800 years old this month
Reading Time: 3 minutes Initially a simple power grab by the aristocracy, the “Great Charter” inadvertently led to parliamentary government
Canada’s first “great political debate” was a dud
Reading Time: 3 minutes Held in 1968, just like today the parties manoeuvred for advantage in establishing the ground rules
Politics, prime ministers and pariahs
Reading Time: 3 minutes Betraying the electorate triggers powerful negative emotions
Two election upsets loaded with lessons
Reading Time: 3 minutes What columnist Pat Murphy learned from the PC defeat in Alberta and the Conservative victory in Britain