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This story may explain why all through the Labour Day weekend the Conservative Perpetual Outrage Brigade was acting as if someone had peed in their cornflakes.

When the media's not around, nobody can match Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives for immature and angry rhetoric.

How else but profound ignorance bordering on a vegetative state can we explain the astonishment among the West's journalists at NATO's apparently shocking revelation last week? How else indeed!

Not done in Canada, you say? Oh yes it is! If the recently dead political figure is someone on the left, one can say pretty much whatever one feels like.

The BBC says: “The International Visitor Leader Program has proved remarkably prescient when it comes to guessing who might one day govern the planet.”