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The 11/12 January joint US-UK bombardment of rebel Houthi positions in the Yemen was extremely welcome despite its glaring shortcomings.
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.
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.
The downfall of capitalism will not be brought about by a superior system, but rather by the success of the capitalist system itself.
Could Trump win this year's presidential election?
The disgraceful spectacle on display in the Red Sea, courtesy of Houthi impudence and Western “restraint”, is not just an outrage.
Poland has repeatedly been ahead of its time. Now, Donald Tusk is initiating a trend heralding a new era of liberal autocracy in Europe.
Let me first introduce you to a photograph that will puzzle you.
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…
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”.
The confidence of European elites was shaken in 2023 as national populist parties surged in popularity across the continent.
In 2007, Philippe Legrain published the book Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them with Princeton University Press in which he claimed that “sober-minded economists…
The GOP’s quixotic quest for the Hispanic vote is as old as the concept of the “Hispanic vote” itself.
2023 has been an important year for conservative and Right-wing parties in Europe. 2024, however, will be truly decisive.
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…
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…
Verhofstadt's gnashers
History is not just on the move again, it is at a gallop.
The EU has done nothing to deserve winning the war in Ukraine.
As the old saying goes, predictions are always difficult, especially if they concern the future.
You have to hand it to Emmanuel Macron.
It cannot have been an easy thing for Zelensky to state publicly at his latest press conference that Ukraine needs more men.
With Europe’s Christian identity in the crosshairs, Christmas is under fire, both literally and metaphorically.
An exhibition of sculptures by the Baroque artist Pedro Roldán has just opened in Seville. Anyone with an eye to see should be delighted.
“In this world,” the old Benjamin Franklin adage goes, “nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
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…
After months of potshots, the EU's war with Twitter / X has now officially begun.
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…
Abraham Lincoln’s saying that you can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time…
The European Commission has disclosed it will not protect octopus species under European law.
