A police officer looks across the Thames at the British Parliament in London on Jan. 23, 2010.
Just in case we as a free and democratic people needed any more encouragement to stand together against the anti-democratic forces of repression and prorogation, the following arrived this morning from my friend Andrew Clark who reports for the Guardian newspaper in New York. (Clark is the sort of Canuckophile Brit who remains vaguely fascinated by the idea that there exists a massive landmass to the north of the United States that continues to count the Queen as its head of state.)
"Am on Sunday duty for the Guardian and just offered a piece on protests over Harper proroguing parliament. The foreign editor's response was that the deathly words 'Canadian politics' killed any story. Just thought you'd like to know!"
Oh. Never mind.