‘The arrogance of a regime that thinks it can get away with just about anything’

The Prime Minister is apparently due to make his first public comment tonight on The National. In the meantime, Michael Ignatieff files this.

Last week’s shutting down of Parliament was a key moment. A turning point? Too dramatic. In any case, too early to tell. More important, it was one of those moments of supreme clarity. The audacity. The epic scale of the cynicism. The arrogance of a regime that thinks it can get away with just about anything.