You have to wonder who in Michael Ignatieff's camp thinks it's smart for him to keep giving long form interviews to plummy foreign journals. First it was the New Yorker, now it's The Guardian, a left-of-centre daily in Britain, where Iggy hosted a BBC-TV arts program for six years. Interviewer Rachel Cooke is a tad shaky on Canadian politics—she calls Ignatieff "the man most likely to be Canada's next prime minister," and describes the Harper government as "on its knees"—but she does get off a few delicious zingers. On his return to Canada: [H]e likes to attribute his return at least as much...