How to be great again: Europe’s right-wing must form a cohesive vision
Barely a week goes by where there is not another “Make Europe Great Again” event somewhere on the old continent.
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Despite Trump’s win, Europe’s populist wave is more vulnerable than ever
One of history’s most powerful drivers of change is the so-called law of unintended consequences.
What does Germany think about being a nation — strong, assertive or weak?
Elon Musk’s recent address to the AfD party in Germany has reignited a centuries-old debate: What kind of Germany does Europe truly need?
Trump hits Davos with nationalist capitalism, chastened elite forced to accept
Speaking from the White House, President Trump last week sounded a stirring tocsin of nationalist capitalism to the usual audience in the grim Swiss mountain town…
US does not want to defend Europe any more, but Europeans say ‘Ho-hum’
If you have paid attention to European defence issues and NATO conversations these past few weeks, you’d have thought that something got into the water in the…
Founding Israel: hatred, hypocrisy, dishonesty, hubris, all round
Eighty years ago last Sunday, Soviet troops “liberated” what remained of Auschwitz.
For the EU elite, a lesson in how an American succeeds, no credentials needed
Anyone who still doubts that Donald Trump has a wicked sense of humour need only consider his chosen ambassador to the EU, Andrew Puzder, recent CEO of the Hardee’s…
Barbados coalition: Immigrant violence forces Merz to ‘tolerate’ AfD votes
German political elites like to label their multi-party coalitions by flags which contain the colours of the parties that comprise them.
Immigration: the American state comes first, no more ‘pathololgical altruism’
While I agree with the premise that Donald Trump’s return to the presidency will be a good thing for the United States, I am a little less sanguine about what…
Throw ‘Nazi’ and ‘fascist’ around without true meaning, it normalises the unthinkable
The aftermath of the alleged “Nazi salute” of Elon Musk highlights an alarming phenomenon: The casual application of labels like “Nazi” or “fascist”…
MEGA dazzle: does the MAGA playbook apply in Europe?
From the moment that America’s 47th president took his oath of office this Monday, it’s as if national conservatives around the world, together with the opponents…
Europe as the Cold War order dies: stagnating, fading, failing, lost
Out of the many actions President Donald Trump took on his first day in office, two caught the eyes of Europeans: his announced withdrawal from both the Paris Climate…
Trump to stop all aid to Ukraine? Claptrap
The fantasyland of contemporary Western European notions of the Western Alliance was well-illustrated this week by an article published by the former foreign minister…
The Left used to want ‘net neutrality,’ now they want net censorship
Look back a few years and you will see shifts in political positions that fascinate.
The new EU defence commissioner, not much money, not much influence
No one knows the hazards of the defence portfolio better than Ursula von der Leyen, whose tenure leading the German defence ministry was marked by a failure to improve…
Feminists and ‘justice’: ‘Some ideas are so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them’
Bliss it was that dawn to be alive, but to be old was very heaven.
Musk vs Soros: the internationalists save their outrage for just one
In the theatre of modern politics, where money, power, and influence play out like a high-stakes game of chess, two names consistently rise to the surface of every…
COSCO and the US blacklist: Europe’s ports or Beijing’s tentacles?
The United States has just delivered an almighty wake-up call to Europe, blacklisting China’s state-owned maritime leviathan, COSCO, in a bold stroke that could…
Imperialism not a replacement for good governance, it is its consequence
In this third and final part of our series on neo-Imperialism I would like to start with the most important observation: Successful and lasting imperialism is a…
What did European liberals ever get from trusting Joe Biden?
Next week American President-elect Donald Trump will drop the “elect,” and President Joe Biden will pick up "former” before his name.
Dominion: Trump’s new grand strategy?
With Donald Trump only days away from being sworn into what will likely be the most “imperial” of US presidencies since Franklin D.
Falling birth rates? More than just technocratic, it is a cultural question
Last week Turkey announced that it was introducing a series of incentives designed to increase the Turkish birth rate.
Trump remembers Reagan: let the hostages go or ‘Hell to pay’
Despite the slightly pathetic effort of the departing Biden regime to claim that it is the diligence of the president and his secretary of state that has brought…
Brussels fears Musk, he fights the ancient fight for free speech
The Brussels elite have contended they are defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism at home and abroad.
A director sees only racism in Britain when history offers more
The often overrated Hanna Arendt was bang on the money when she declared that, “Under normal circumstances, the liar is defeated by reality, for which there is…
Fire rips across California because of gender ratios and ethnic quotas
The recent wildfires that have ravaged California are nothing short of apocalyptic -- countless homes and acres of forest turned to ash, tens of lives lost and thousands…
Weidel and Musk: she is personable, reasonable but shows no charisma
If a key characteristic of revolutionaries is their ability to talk for hours without end, then the Alternative for Germany’s Alice Weidel is many things, but…
Greece: corrupt elites bring a nation to its knees, Brussels beware
The numbers from Eurostat’s 2024 report are indisputable and grim: While politicians spin tales of recovery and progress, the cold, hard data tells a very different…
Censorship fog descends on Europe, world cut off
A performative fury erupted across Europe when the dread Elon Musk not only endorsed Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD), but agreed to host an extended interview…
Greenland, Canada, Panama: Trump wants them, but can he take them?
This is the kind of news that makes a journalist shiver in excitement. What a story.