Christopher Moore's History News

The other week, while I was away, the prime minister of New Zealand resigned (and because she was Jacinda Ardern superstar, it was internati...

Boris considers his "team" As the Alberta "United" Conservative Party vote-buying orgy/leadership review goes on ("...

Imran Khan is no longer the prime minister of Pakistan. His party and its coalition partners lost a confidence vote in the Pakistani legisla...

Nice to see Andrew Coyne taking seriously the decision of the Conservative Party caucus in Ottawa to adopt the Reform Act's rules by wh...

I've been meaning to note the recently very impressive  Literary Review of Canada  and particularly its current (October 2020) issue. Th...

With Boris Johnson in intensive care, commentators from the New York Times to Lawyers Guns and Money are having the vapours about a Briti...

I'd rather talk about cutting minimum wages A representative for Jason Kenney, when questioned about putting up a dummy candidate to...

Regular readers will be familiar  (wearily so?) with my views on parliamentary leadership accountability and the need for backbenchers ...

The Guardian reports that New Zealand's opposition Labour Party, facing an election and low in the polls, made a smooth, efficient, an...

As it looks more and more like the Conservative leadership "race" will make one of the Boaty McBoatface candidates leader of the ...

Some guy, an Islamophone, and a misogyst, on a stage A gang of incompetents and nobodies  -- fourteen, at last count -- is spending e...

Readers of this blog and my books and articles ( this and this , for example) on constitutional and parliamentary history will know, maybe ...

I agree with the journalist Dale Smith often enough on parliamentary matters (not on the monarchy!)  to wonder if he follows this site.  ...