In Name Only

Now that the centre&right political class machine has kicked into high gear in its collective attempt to ensure that Zohran Mamdani does not become mayor of New York City in November, the excitement of his upset victory in the Democratic primary a couple weeks ago over the tattered and tatty disgraced former governor, Andrew Cuomo, has lost some of its pep if not luster. Continue reading

Afterglower

With Olivia Chow elected to be the next mayor of Toronto, surely we can write the final chapter of the interminable, meandering, wholly unsatisfactory, What was it even about? book of the John Tory era. Can’t we? He’s done, isn’t he? The rock has definitively crushed him in his one last attempt to roll it up the hill of relevancy. Hasn’t it? Continue reading