Aug. 30 -- Two Steyn

Aug. 30 -- Two Steyn columns, and one especially for the downtrodden Canadian and American masses (that's us!)

This Labour Day weekend, I find myself thinking about the working class, the masses.

No, honestly, I do. Okay, I'm on the beach, but the folks around me lying on the sand have jobs they'll be getting back to on Tuesday. They work. They would be classed as workers. But they're not a homogeneous "working class," they're not conscripts in Karl Marx's "masses." The transformation of Labour Day, from a celebration of workers' solidarity to a cook-out, is the perfect precis of the history of Anglo-American capitalism.

The second is classic Mark Steyn. He takes a look at the wrangling between the Blair government and the BBC and manages to get it in one sentence:

And then we move to the Hutton Inquiry for a clip of the BBC chairman launching an extraordinary attack on the Government for its extraordinary attack on the BBC for its extraordinary attack on the Government."

He has to get a little help from Abbott and Costello, though.

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