The choice is clear: stability and strong government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband.

My message would be: LOL.

A great way to avoid this problem: lose your sessional teaching.

Glad to read that you have recovered this far!

The Greens could probably learn from Stalin to show more enthusiasm for electrification.

A very odd fellow (but aren't we all).

Just read an Urback column listing 'climate change measures' as one of the items of grotesque mismanagement for which ex PM Trudeau should feel 'humility'.

My Phantoms author Gwendoline Riley on winning $175,000: ‘It was unimaginable. I felt overwhelmed.’ Renowned for her darkly funny novels exploring failed relationships, the writer has been awarded the Windham‑Campbell prize for a body of work. She explains why it will change her life – if not her ou...

If not the best novelist writing in English, then undoubtedly the best novelist in England.

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Consoled to read this in the week of a terrible personal setback and to reflect that things can always get worse.

They are also tearing up that stretch for drains right now. They could just drop a barrier when they redo the tarmac - on the You Can Just Do Things principle.

I ride that stretch a lot also and will be a nice to have connector but so many other places in the city require more urgent attention (even by Vancouver's standards of urgency).

It's OK: it is borne in on me daily these days that I am just A Guy.

That said: like Ken I did used to feel the 'vibe of the Drive' when I lived there. Perhaps that counts as a there, there.

Just a deracinated Londoner, what can I say.

I like Canada but it does not love me back.

Probably because 'transplant' discourse involves accusing people of imposing suburban values on a beating, authentic urban core. Here where there is no there, that would be hard to do.

Not many people know that the J in JD stands for Junker Jörg.

'Anyone for dejeuner sur l'herbe??' (next to a motorway)

One thing I never get in Vancouver is that whether you are a school kid or a park goer or whatever you are just supposed to ignore the roar and smell of cars.

We can dream of Sydney's Circular Quay.....

Pope Leo: 'He said that? Wow.'

It sounds like the next Ben Lerner novel. 'Asphyxiation'.

gas leak at the ben lerner reading would be extinction level event for British library readers pass holders

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Another day on Ken's parallel cycle infrastructure.

But [put government minister here] doesn't represent the government!

Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

Proud to write now and then for a paper that has done so much to document these atrocities

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Me, a grinning Edwardian railway baron: facing Granville is hardly....real Shaughnessy.

That said in Vancouver no one does much about people being killed by cars either.