Alan Reid

Arnprior to Toronto via London, UK.

Likes politics, maps and old hymns.

[Alan Reid @alanreid87]

@frandalorian You might as well tell him he's a fat humorless slob

[Alan Reid @alanreid87]

@AndrewGold_ok I really enjoyed your interview with her. It was an engaging conversation and she was a compelling woman.

[Andrew Gold @AndrewGold_ok]

Devastated to hear that Ann Widdecombe has been murdered. When she came on Heretics, she was an absolute delight. So warm, funny and charismatic. She even charmed one team member who was not a fan. She had that ability.

Here she is talking in a very Ann Widdecombe way about her own mortality.

[Alan Reid @alanreid87]

@nypost What's the over / under that he's gay ?

[Alan Reid @alanreid87]

RIP Ann Widdecombe

[Alan Reid @alanreid87]

@anthonydmusa Even Louis Vuitton makes mistakes

[Alan Reid @alanreid87]

@davidportier @Indivdiff I believe Theresa and Philip May have AC in their house in Maidenhead

[Alan Reid @alanreid87]

@globeandmail Thank you . It's an integral aspect of our Canadian democracy that the media hold the opposition to account .

[Alan Reid @alanreid87]

@howardanglin Agreed. However I fear there is a high probability the design competition will yield some horrendous steel and glass carbuncle tacked onto the existing building .

[Alan Reid @alanreid87]

@MurrayHillGuy1 Totally immoral

[Alan Reid @alanreid87]

@JeremiahDJohns Because the UK invented the modern world

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

We need to have a serious conversation about Canada's culture of aggressively resentful mediocrity, which is encouraged by the Laurentians as it helps prop up the rentier feudalism of Canada's moribund political economy.

Success is punished. Ambition is castigated. Achievement goes unrewarded. No one is supposed to get above themselves, no one is allowed to reach for greatness.

In the Canadian system, you are expected to obtain permission for absolutely anything you want to do. Any success that isn't "success" bequeathed from the generous hand of Ottawa's commissars is immediately suspect, and will invariably be sabotaged. That pattern has persisted uninterrupted since Diefenbaker broke the aerospace industry. It's small-minded, small-town provincialism as an ethos of governance. Exhausted late-Soviet Brezhnevism laying like a choking fog over the land.

[Anthony Koch @Anthony__Koch]

In Canada, we celebrate the overpaid bureaucrat who makes six figures to do next to nothing while demonizing the entrepreneurs and business people who generate the dollars required to pay that bureaucrats salary.

So many of our problems stem from this mentality.

[Siddharth's Echelon @SiddharthKG7]

Pope Leo officially inaugurated Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona, Spain yesterday. It was 100th death anniversary of its original architect Antoni Gaudi.

This is the tallest church of world & they are making it since 1882. Still some more years for final finishing work.

[Dominion Aesthetics @CanadianAesth]

Royal 22nd Regiment, Quebec, Quebec (1950s)

[Crewkerne Gazette @CrewkerneGaz]

Doctor Who: Jacob Rees-Mogg travels to 2040, finding England desolate after a decade of socialist rule. Searching for his assistant Liz Truss, he soon faces a far slimier threat: the dreaded Thornberrians.

{satire}

[Hon. Lisa MacCormack Raitt P.C. @lraitt]

Composed and logical in explaining a complex position, pushing back on the framing that seeks to play gotcha politics. Great first outing Madame Leader.

[Dominion Aesthetics @CanadianAesth]

Prime Minister Mackenzie King delivers an address upon the installation of Lord Tweedsmuir as Governor General, Quebec City, Quebec (1936)

[Alan Reid @alanreid87]

@Lewy_B_2013 @Empireaesth I keep them up to show my mistake 😜