Trump never agrees to a deal that does not give him his bottom line
Official Europe is anxious and apprehensive about Friday’s summit in Alaska between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
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The sheer evil of the Hamas attack means Israel has become an international pariah
This is a column I hoped never to write. The terrible truth is that Hamas has already won its Gaza war.
Europe and Ukraine: defeat of Moscow a miscalculation of Napoleonic proportions
History has a way of mocking those who ignore its lessons.
Vatican leans more towards Palestine than Israel? Not strictly speaking
When asked to comment on France's decision in July to recognise the State of Palestine, the Vatican Secretary of State noted that the Holy See has recognised Palestine…
€800bn arms without armies? All dead steel and no soldiers
Once the European Commission opened the €800 billion defence spending honeypot and Germany moved to exclude defence spending from deficit calculations, the big…
Governments give weak gestures on migrants, people reply with rage
This week, France’s government punished a Moroccan migrant.
The problem of the State on the Right
One of the main ideological tensions on the so-called dissident Right – also known as the populist, nationalist or hard-right – concerns the role of the State.
Recognising Palestine shows ‘desperate weakness of judgment and purpose’
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…
Ukraine: Russians understand ‘the longer term,’ the West does not
When, as they have done, the Visegrad Four talk about events in central Europe, wise folk listen.
European Commission’s complicity in Poland’s constitutional breakdown
The victory of Karol Nawrocki in the presidential election and his assumption of office due on August 6 constitutes a direct challenge to the mandate of Tusk’s…
Urgent EU automation can curb migrant numbers and bring rapid industrial growth
Europe is being left behind on automation. With a fertility rate of 1.38 children per woman in 2023—that is, well below the 2.
Despite euro-fantasies, Trump, Xi and Putin do not regard the EU as a sovereign state
Much has been made of the lopsided deal Ursula von der Leyen struck with Donald Trump, which among other things traded zero tariffs on US goods for a 15 per cent…
In trade as in defence, the US is strong and the EU is weak
The new US-EU trade deal has spawned a legion of critics who allege European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen cravenly capitulated in the face of American…
Wannabe “revolutionaries” need a serious plan
In Europe’s summer heat, talk of civil war and regime change is spreading like wildfire and reaching new heights of intensity every week.
Social media ‘Hitler chic’ means Nazism may lose all meaning
One of the most absurd features of our times is the intentional and unintentional attempts to, for lack of a better term, “make Hitler cool again.
Every metric in British life reeks of necrosis
Jericho did not fall simply because of the trumpets, and Britain is not falling simply because of its utterly contemptible Labour government.
As Bulgaria enters the euro, Greece’s pricey tragedy calls for caution
Welcome, Bulgaria, to the eurozone’s arena.
US flattens EU: Brussels is too weak to be a pole in a multipolar world
The trade deal on July 27 between America and the European Union was disastrous for Europe. The Financial Times described it as “the EU to Trump’s steamroller.
Will Gazans be relocated to Europe?
What I am about to outline is quite disturbing. So much so, in fact, that I sincerely hope to be mistaken in the connections being drawn.
Is civil war coming to the West?
Is the West on the brink of civil war? A question that would have seemed absurd a decade ago, is becoming ever more prevalent.
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Romania has just faced its Communist past, and the past won
A recent poll reveals that 66% of Romanians view Nicolai Ceausescu positively, with many believing the Communist regime was better, highlighting a complex nostalgia…
Is Zelensky worried about what corruption investigators could find?
Ukraine’s parliament sent jitters through Brussels this week with the passage of a bill which would strip independence from two anti-corruption bodies – the…
Conservatives must do more than take office, they must take power
I have to admit, sometimes it becomes tiresome: Every time I attend a supposedly “grand summit” of (mostly Anglosphere) conservatism like Jordan Peterson’s…
The word from a veteran: How the EU is trying to federalise through its budget
Ursula von der Leyen’s launch last week of the Commission’s proposed 2028-34 budget, aka “Multiannual Financial Framework”, brought back a few unsettling…
Never forget: the truth is the gallant Joe McCarthy was right
Myths survive not because they’re true but because they satisfy a social need.
Europe still has the power of… what, exactly?
President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course earlier this month when he decided to send Patriot missiles, along with other possibly offensive weaponry, to Ukraine,…
Countries defy the ECHR: Is the end of ‘human rights’ in Europe approaching?
Amidst a heated election campaign in Poland, observers have witnessed a ground-breaking and unprecedented event—an open letter from representatives of nine countries…
As the bodies of dead babies are dug up, innocent nuns are vilified
This week, the largest excavation of a burial site in Irish history began in Tuam, County Galway.
Why isolationism is the wave of the future
With a trillion dollar budget now finally in sight for the United States military, with Europe, too, formally committing to hundreds of billions of new defence…
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Finns increasingly self identify as politically right-wing
A recent survey shows that 49% of Finns now identify as politically right-wing, highlighting a shift towards polarization and ideological fragmentation within the…