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OPINION
An article last week in the online site of Time magazine by the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, well illustrates the growing crisis of misgovernment of our greatest cities.
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The revelation by a whistle-blower, which a review of news film confirms, that the BBC deliberately spliced what it represented as an accurate excerpt of a speech by President…
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The failure of the Russian government to give the slightest encouragement to President Trump that it was worthwhile having another meeting about the Ukraine War in Budapest…
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The collapse of the Lecornu government in the French National Assembly, the fourth government to fail in the last year, raises disturbing resonances of the parliamentary chaos…
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The veteran British military historian and newspaperman Sir Max Hastings, who was a competent editor of The Daily Telegraph when I had the honour to be that newspaper’s…
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A variety of events in the last two weeks have accentuated a trend by which the United States steadily enhances its position of leadership and authority in the West, and the…
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In an astounding coincidence, as the news arrived that Charlie Kirk, founder and head of the enlightened traditionalist movement Turning Point USA, had been assassinated,…
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The collapse of the French government in the National Assembly this week and the very extensive demonstrations in Britain against over-indulgence of immigrants and increasing…
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We are finally coming to a decisive moment in the Ukraine war.
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There are two burning questions about the war in Gaza and its consequences.
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It is gratifying at last to see some appreciation from the principal Western European political leaders of the restoration of purposeful government in Washington and the sensible…
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The contrast in circumstances this week in Alaska with the last meeting seven years ago between President Trump and President Putin could not be more stark.
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The movement initiated by France and slavishly followed by the United Kingdom and Canada to recognise a Palestinian state reveals the almost desperate weakness of judgment…
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As regular readers will have noticed, I have often dissented from the widespread view, generally uttered with a rather irritating attitude of resignation, that the West is…
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The almost unanimous NATO commitment to a sharp increase in the member-countries’ military budgets at the meeting of NATO leaders last week was a complete legitimisation…
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Rarely in recent years has the tendency of Western European and Canadian leaders to bustle about international crises, inflicting mindless pieties about “cease-fires”…
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Once again, America's European allies and Canada are floundering around the Middle East crisis, flapping their arms ineffectively and uttering platitudes of moral relativism…
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The new German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, made an excellent impression in Washington last week.
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The Ukrainian attack on 41 Russian long-range bombers and intelligence aircraft on June 1 has been widely recognised as a triumph of scientific ingenuity and a tactical military…
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No one should be in the slightest doubt of the cowardly and hypocritical posturing of the joint declaration of France, the United Kingdom, and Canada last week about Israel…
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The wobbly start of the Merz government in Germany highlights the precarious condition of the party framework that has governed the Federal Republic since its founding in…
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It may not have been well-publicised in Europe, but the combination of the sudden temporary resolution and de-escalation of the tariff imbroglio between the United States…
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It seems now, finally, to be the turn of the United Kingdom to join in the Western World’s move toward the populist Right.
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The Canadian election on Monday only partially confirmed the trend of the last Italian and Argentinian elections, the US election in November and the subsequent German election,…
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It always seems to me, as a mere but faithful communicant in the vast mass of the Pope’s adherents, a bit presumptuous to critique a pope or a papacy.
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Europe was accustomed for so long to an alliance with the United States where the contributions and benefits were so uneven in Europe's favour that the Europeans became addicted…
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Obscured by the deafening cacophony of incomprehension about a number of the policy innovations of the Trump administration, there are some refreshing signs of progress.
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The conviction for embezzlement of French Rassemblement National leader Marine Le Pen invites concern that the French are setting off down the same road of politicisation…
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President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio's expulsion this week from the United States of the South African ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, is another delightful wringing down…
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From all indications, the proposed fiscal agreement in Germany between the Christian Democrats (CDU-CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens is an inadequate approach…