Canada's 'most idiosyncratic observer' has loads to say about climate change politics

Rex Murphy, who just left The Globe and Mail for the National Post, is critical of the 'politically correct' media pressure to fight climate change.

Rex Murphy, who surprised many newspaper readers when he recently left his highly-prized column spot in Saturday's Globe and Mail for the National Post, has packed a lot of living into the years since he was born in Carbonear, Nfld., in 1947.

He grew up in Freshwater, Placentia Bay, and started reading newspapers and Grade 1 when he was four years old, university when he was 15, was an Oxford Rhodes Scholar but dropped...