#howardanglin — Public Fediverse posts

#HowardAnglin: "If we are all in this together and are all going to have to shoulder the pain necessary to wait out a better deal, that pain should be distributed from those least exposed - retirees outside the job market with paid off homes and guaranteed incomes - to those of working age with families to support and business or student debt and mortgages."

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#HowardAnglin: "Sitting around yesterday with a spare hour on my hands, I figured that since everyone else I know has written about it, what the world really needs is another thumbsucker about the Jason Arday scandal. Here’s mine. https://thehub.ca/2026/08/07/jason-ardays-story-is-a-morality-tale-for-our-universities/" | nitter
https://nitter.net/howardanglin/status/2085810012363047237#m

#JasonArday

#HowardAnglin: "Happy Day commemorating the liberation of four forgers, a lunatic, a would-be regicide, and a homicidal aristocratic pervert from a prison that was scheduled to be demolished and replaced with a park, to all who celebrate." | nitter
https://nitter.net/howardanglin/status/2077039437935202514#m

#France

#HowardAnglin : "“As Canada faces an increasingly divided and uncertain world, Canadians expect” … more politicised Senate appointments. Don’t get me wrong: I want political appointments, so I welcome this change, but the cynicism of the sales job is breathtaking 😂" | nitter
https://nitter.net/howardanglin/status/2074492971328622784#m

#CanPol #cdnpoli

#HowardAnglin: "Even more than in Canada, the British political class has become “systematised” by a class of public servants who view “service” entirely in terms of internal process, with results an afterthought when considered at all. Rarely is a process questioned in light of the dismal results it produces. If things are bad, the solution can only be more process, and so The System grows and spreads through departments, agencies, quangos, and commissions."

https://thehub.ca/2026/06/22/keir-starmer-resigns-but-britains-failing-system-remains/

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#HowardAnglin: "Reminds me of the Duke of Wellington's brief and ineffectual stint as prime minister, when he described his Cabinet meeting as: “An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.” For what it's worth, I couldn't care less if Carney yells if he is effective, and on that the jury is very much out."
https://nitter.net/howardanglin/status/2062317233314079040#m

(Personally, I disagree with Mr. Anglin; I care about #MarkCarney's character.)

#parliament #DukeOfWellington
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"Eighteenth century Russia, for example, was exposed to the heady distillation of Enlightenment liberalism: beards were shorn, wild Pskovian murmolkas and dazzling Bukharan chapans were banished in favour of powdered wigs and panniered gowns à la mode française, and the cognoscenti dulled their wits on Diderot. But it didn’t take. Russia remained, and remains, obstinately allergic to the allures of liberal government."

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https://thehub.ca/2026/05/19/can-we-save-liberalism-from-itself/

#liberalism
#TheHubCa

#HowardAnglin, from a few weeks ago: "On this day in 1918, Lt. Gordon Flowerdew led the Lord Strathcona's Horse in the last cavalry charge of the Canadian Army at the Battle of Moreuil Wood, 60 miles north of Paris. Flowerdew died the next day of his wounds, and was awarded a VC. "It's a charge boys, it's a charge!"" | nitter
https://nitter.net/howardanglin/status/2038608683391910075#m

But he was corrected; this was the penultimate #cavalry charge of the Canadian army.

#VC

"[T]o get a sense of why Diefenbaker and so many others fought so hard, try to imagine a new conservative government proposing to reverse the decision, replacing the now-familiar red and white flag with the old Red Ensign or the Union Jack. The reaction today would be as angrily uncomprehending as it was for so many in 1964. The reason is obvious: a flag symbolizes a country and its people, so changing the flag implies a change in the country"

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https://thehub.ca/2021/07/13/howard-anglin-bring-on-the-culture-wars/

#TheHubCa

#HowardAnglin: "I was disappointed I had to wait five minutes for a table at my local cafe today. I was disappointed they were sold out of babka buns. I was disappointed it rained on my walk home. I condemn the unjust arrest, imprisonment, and sentencing of Jimmy Lai by the thuggish PRC regime." | nitter

https://nitter.net/AnitaAnandMP/status/2020878891020124467#m

https://nitter.net/howardanglin/status/2020993385704628505#m

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#JimmyLai #China #PRC #HongKong
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#HowardAnglin: "One final thought on Carney's Davos wordfest, which occurred to me while thinking about his confused appeal to Havel (see long, earlier Tweet). For all Carney's talk about the importance of bravely "naming reality" he doesn't actually name names. He says: "The powerful have their power. But we have something too – the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality ... That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently."

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Howard Anglin (@howardanglin): "It’s the government’s job to win the support of the House, not the House’s job to prop up a government that isn’t willing to do what it takes to secure majority support. If there’s an election, it’s because the Liberals want one or they weren’t willing to do enough to avoid one." | nitter
https://nitter.net/howardanglin/status/1990187074314490105#m

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