Calling it now, twenty-eight days before the Canadian federal election, this Globe and Mail column is the smartest thing anyone’s going to write on the matter. Not that it’s done, mind you. It’ll be jump-ball at the final debate. That’s where the country will decide.

Speaking of Canada, I hope someone at our High Commission in the UK sends Charles Moore a nice bottle of something for his recent Telegraph piece.

You could read another awful article catastrophizing about the purported end of democracy, or you could read Moisés Naím’s recent Atlantic article about why people are throwing the bums out. Here’s a taste:

In many countries, expectations rise faster than government capacity, governments look hapless, and the resulting public discontent makes the countries harder to govern.

It’s a feature. Not a bug.