Rights talk: The gender agenda will be a major fault-line in the 2024 European Elections
Gender policies have become a major dividing line in contemporary politics.
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Edward Gibbon, Max Weber and Ralph Schoellhammer are wrong: Protestants did not invent capitalism. We Catholics got there first
Dr Ralph Schoellhammer is the Vienna academic whose work you will have read in Brussels Signal. I treat him and his articles with respect. I have to.
The welcome but feeble Yemen strikes show that half-measures don’t work anymore: The West needs to relearn how to act with overwhelming force
The 11/12 January joint US-UK bombardment of rebel Houthi positions in the Yemen was extremely welcome despite its glaring shortcomings.
When the Right starts talking about white privilege we are in trouble: Conservatives aren’t going to win by using Left-wing talking points
In the protracted daytime soap opera that passes for today’s U.S. Congress, Hunter Biden’s surprise appearance led the highlight reels all last week.
Trump or Biden? What Europeans need to know about the US presidential elections this year – they are more important for you than any since World War Two
2024 is set to be the year of elections in Europe, with at least six national parliamentary votes scheduled along with the European Union contest.
More religion than science: To understand today’s climate alarmists read a long-dead Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter
The downfall of capitalism will not be brought about by a superior system, but rather by the success of the capitalist system itself.
Whatever the outcome of this year’s presidential election, the EU still relies on the United States for defence. A NATO without America would be a disaster for Europe
Could Trump win this year's presidential election?
The Red Sea crisis: Britain and the United States are right to launch strikes against the Houthis
The disgraceful spectacle on display in the Red Sea, courtesy of Houthi impudence and Western “restraint”, is not just an outrage.
What is happening in Poland is setting a dangerous precedent for the whole of Europe: Autocracy in the name of liberalism is coming to a parliament near you soon
Poland has repeatedly been ahead of its time. Now, Donald Tusk is initiating a trend heralding a new era of liberal autocracy in Europe.
Artificial wombs are about to be with us: This could transform the abortion debate
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Democracy at the crossroads: Illiberal liberals seem intent on rigging Europe’s elections
From Frederic Bastiat’s The Law to John Rawls’s Theory of Justice, the basic premise of liberal philosophy has always been equality before the law: Freedom and…
From the United States to Germany, the self-proclaimed defenders of democracy are fast becoming its enemies: They are playing a very dangerous game
A supposedly serious Bloomberg headline is setting the tone for the new year: “2024 is the Year of Elections and That’s a Threat to Democracy”.
2024 could be the year the European consensus is finally shattered by a continent-wide populist surge
The confidence of European elites was shaken in 2023 as national populist parties surged in popularity across the continent.
Mass immigration comes at a huge cost and where migrants come from matters: It is time Europe’s mainstream politicians acknowledged these truths
In 2007, Philippe Legrain published the book Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them with Princeton University Press in which he claimed that “sober-minded economists…
White votes matter too: US Republicans would do better reassuring their core demographic than pursuing the elusive quest for boosting Hispanic support
The GOP’s quixotic quest for the Hispanic vote is as old as the concept of the “Hispanic vote” itself.
Predictions for 2024: This year could see the breakthrough of Europe’s Right, turning the European Parliament into a nightmare for the Left
2023 has been an important year for conservative and Right-wing parties in Europe. 2024, however, will be truly decisive.
Will 2024 be the year in which judicial activism begins to dictate the course of elections?
The attempts to take Donald Trump's name off the US presidential ballot and rumblings about banning the German AfD and Polish PiS parties could be the start of a…
Predictions for 2024: The Good, The Bad and the Wobbly
2023 ended with two ongoing major wars, a worldwide military buildup, a realignment of most of the African continent as captive clients of China and Russia, and…
Predictions for 2024: Wolves to the EU borders, Martin Selmayr to the Vatican, Roman romances
Verhofstadt's gnashers
Predictions for 2024: Brace for geo-strategic impact. A look at what else will go wrong next year – or not
History is not just on the move again, it is at a gallop.
Win or lose, Brussels has fumbled the war in Ukraine
The EU has done nothing to deserve winning the war in Ukraine.
Predictions for 2024: The West’s energy crisis may be coming to an end, but Zelensky must look ahead at the coming year with foreboding
As the old saying goes, predictions are always difficult, especially if they concern the future.
Macron has managed to spin the Immigration Bill in his own favour: The master tactician has made himself sound tough but reasonable
You have to hand it to Emmanuel Macron.
Ukraine needs more men: The strange case of the fake Irish call up letters
It cannot have been an easy thing for Zelensky to state publicly at his latest press conference that Ukraine needs more men.
Let’s stand up for Christmas
With Europe’s Christian identity in the crosshairs, Christmas is under fire, both literally and metaphorically.
See Pedro Roldán and understand: Whatever sophisticates might tell you, the basis of European culture is religion
An exhibition of sculptures by the Baroque artist Pedro Roldán has just opened in Seville. Anyone with an eye to see should be delighted.
Post-Gaza, wokery on American campuses is at last being challenged. But the cure might make matters worse
“In this world,” the old Benjamin Franklin adage goes, “nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
Don’t be fooled by Rishi Sunak’s love-in with Giorgia Meloni: It amounts to much less than it seems
There is that wonderful scene in Roman Holiday, where Gregory Peck scares Audrey Hepburn’s princess by pretending to have his hand bitten off by the Bocca della…
Make no mistake: The EU’s war on X is a war on free speech
After months of potshots, the EU's war with Twitter / X has now officially begun.
Hey Rishi, leave those kids alone: The British Prime Minister’s proposed ban on under 16s accessing social media shows how the UK is squandering its Brexit freedoms
In his desperation for any good news and for something, anything, to shift his dial of misery the UK Prime Minister is chucking policies at the wall like an amateur…