Oh, really? Starmer says online free speech causes riots
Last week, as much of the world now knows, three young girls were murdered and eight others were seriously injured in a knife attack at a children’s dance class…
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After the summer, an awkward menu of decisions waits for European leaders
The traditional August vacation means a likely slow month for European political news.
Arab and Israeli civilisation gaining ground against Iran
Perhaps my perception from North America of European official attitudes is incomplete, but a reasonably thorough hunt around the internet has given me the impression…
A mother, a widow, cut off her head and French culture finds it amusing
The opening of the Paris Olympic Games turned the state-murder of Marie Antoinette in 1793 into a comic opera and marked another milestone in the cultural death…
EU’s ‘degrowth’ means rich stay rich, the poor are made even poorer
It is hard to distinguish whether an action is driven by malice or incompetence when the results are the same.
Destroying the world in French style, anything goes, nothing stands
What we saw a week ago at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympiad did not just come out of the blue.
Farage: success now, but does he have the discipline to lead in the future?
In between the questions raised at Westminster by the huge majority of the new Labour government and the broken remains of the Conservative party, there is one other…
Profound Christian moment mocked by Olympics
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games contained an element that was ghastly and profoundly offensive in itself, and echoes more loudly as it ricochets…
Working classes of Europe are treated with contempt by ideologues of the EU
When Josef Stalin settled on the Oder-Neisse line as the boundary between the Soviet bloc and what would become the NATO-dominated free Europe, the last outcome…
Macron tells us this is France now, like a gay club in San Francisco in 1980
In the midst of the rain-soaked opening ceremony of the Olympics, President Macron tweeted: "This is France." He was right, though perhaps not in the way he intended.
Internal combustion going nowhere, as EVs fail to rev buyers’ engines
I just came across a Los Angeles Times headline: “The electric automobile will quickly and easily take precedence over all other kinds of motor carriages, as soon…
Great art doesn’t need wokery – but London’s galleries take a different view
If you are planning a trip to London this summer, make sure that Tate Britain is on your itinerary.
Cyprus: 50 years after the invasion, is reunification such a good idea?
Fifty years have passed since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
Can Europe defend itself ‘without’ the US?
The prospect of a second Donald Trump presidency and, in particular, his recent pick of JD Vance as vice-presidential candidate have further increased the sense…
New US policy may make Zelensky’s peace plan impossible, time to negotiate
Until now, Ukraine’s government has taken a maximalist approach to its negotiations with Russia.
Crumbling Western politics and instability? Not as bad as it seems
It is easy to succumb to the temptation, after the peculiar election in the United Kingdom with the disintegration of the Conservative Party, the ambiguous results…
Germany democracy: seize the editor, his property, shut his website
The Irish writer C.S. Lewis had it right more than 50 years ago: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
JD Vance knows Europe must grow up and pay for its own defence
The EU’s liberal-idiots have a new villain in their sights merely for speaking the truth: the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance.
US headed for a recession in 2025, Europe be warned
Professor Steve H. Hanke, one of America’s leading economists, has some crisp words about America's economic future, and Europe had better listen.
EU policy negotiations with Trump: find aggression and strength
Former President Donald Trump remains the favourite in America’s presidential race despite President Joe Biden’s decision to drop his re-election bid.
Authoritarian Qatar puts 2,000 cops and armoured cars on the streets of Paris
Two weeks before the Olympic Games are set to kick off in Paris, Qatari security forces, equipped with armoured vehicles and urban camouflage livery, arrived in…
Wokeness and the Secret Service’s failure: DEI can cost lives
Shocking clues come out of the US Senate briefing on the attempt on President Trump‘s life.
Pope aligns with left-wing Sachs and ends up standing with right-wing Trump
In March, Pope Francis made headlines by suggesting that Ukraine should muster the courage to wave the "white flag" and negotiate a peaceful end to the ongoing war…
The meaning of Trump’s epic brush with death
Crooks failed to kill Trump, despite giving it their (sorry, his) best shot.
Nigel Farage is clamouring to reform the UK electoral system – but that would be a disaster for the Right
This month’s UK general election has produced the most distorted electoral results ever.
Surprise: Trump and Vance offer a high comfort level for Europeans
The average European reader is apt to be more mystified than usual by recent political developments in the United States.
Populist-right in Europe needs its own Project 2025
Every four years, European media reports breathlessly on the latest happenings in America’s presidential elections.
Visible knickers: bizarre sartorial tradition of women’s tennis goes undiscussed
England: the seven-letter word that permits stereotyping of the nastiest kind, not by the English, but of them.
Spaniards don’t like €9.6bn a year tourists, but quite like illegal immigrants
When you picture Barcelona, what may come to mind is the stunning modernist architecture of the Sagrada Familia.
Trump is not the only American conservative to face threat of assassination
When I was a boy, I remember being told not to point my finger in accusation, because that meant I had three other fingers pointed back at me.