Rubio: A distinguished and effective diplomatic chief
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s address to the Munich Security Conference last week has ricocheted around Europe and the world as a stirring and conciliatory…
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Public opinion doubts if ‘more Europe’ is the way forward
In Brussels, these are the worst of times, but also the best of times.
Rubio in Hungary, this could be a game changer
When I called a Hungarian politician, who is highly placed among the current political elite, yesterday evening and asked him how he assessed Marco Rubio's visit…
All the doomed UK has left is a cackling demented “That’s all, folks!”
The British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, is an interesting (if only sort-of) example of what happens when life follows art.
The death of technocracy and the return of politics
Real political change tends to have more than one cause, and although it has become somewhat fashionable to reduce everything to a single issue – whether it is…
Poland’s tens of billions in debt for defence invites tough questions on priorities
Poland’s request for nearly €44 billion from the EU’s SAFE defence loan programme is being framed in Warsaw as a strategic breakthrough.
EU Hunger Games: Why the EUSSR is sabotaging your table
While enlightened bureaucrats play politburo, Europe’s farmers and consumers are expected to absorb - or maybe fail to absorb - yet another blow.
Germany must crush Central Europe first if it wants to push US out of Europe
In recent days, Germany, under globalist leadership, has proposed the creation within the European Union of the so-called E6 format – an informal framework bringing…
Is there any hope Europe can learn the Art of the Deal against China?
The horror with which foreign ministries across Europe greeted President Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland shows us how far European diplomats are from understanding,…
Europe’s unbreakable dependency on American AI
The global AI race has become the defining feature of our times. It is now taking place on an unfathomable scale and speed, and cutting across all domains.
Exclusive: Gerard Baker on Rubio in Munich asks, will Europeans finally get the message?
If JD Vance sent Europeans to their fainting couches at last year’s Munich Security Conference, this year Marco Rubio will be on hand to supply the smelling salts.
Japan election proves Trump pumps up the populist-right vote
The Liberal Democratic Party of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi had a resounding victory in her country’s elections over the past weekend.
Begrudging critics need to admit Trump is delivering a US boom
European incomprehension of President Trump has now been stretched to reluctant acknowledgement of the success of his economic policies with dire warnings of the…
The fragile ‘We’: What is at stake is the symbolic boundary of membership
The crisis in liberal democracies is not just about inflation, migration, or polarisation.
Mandelson’s serpentine charm bewitched halfwit Starmer
The small picture is of an ailing British government heading for existential meltdown.
Pakistanis tell Greece to allow cousin marriage: The consanguineous invasion
Just when you thought the West had exhausted its pool of civilisational surrenders, a new frontier of absurdity opens.
New START is dead — good riddance
Since 1972, the United States has always had some sort of ongoing bilateral nuclear treaty with the Soviet Union and its successor state, the Russian Federation.
The endpoint of history, or why Epstein shows what happens when belief dies
The world did not end in a mushroom cloud or a clash of grand ideologies.
How might a functional ‘M12’ grouping of middle powers look like?
As world order frays and old alliances falter, the search is on for new solutions to stabilise the international system while preserving at least some of the principles…
Half of Britain’s Jews think their future is not in the UK
The rampant state of anti-Semitism in Britain has raised the question, long completely implausible, of the legitimacy of the United Kingdom’s claim to be a civilised…
Despite populist push, Portuguese elites persist in hanging together
In Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol, a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come so frightens the miser Ebenezer Scrooge that he changes his ways.
The Odyssey of identity: Why we must fight for the face of Helen of Troy
As Helen of Troy is about to be portrayed as black in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, the latest episode in the war for the soul of the West questions our very fundamentals.
Blair to Starmer, the UK’s serial decay led by despicable PMs
The Chinese certainly know how to turn the screw.
Twisting history to dishonour history’s victims and democracy’s principles
Across the Western world, a troubling pattern has emerged: Historical memory is being weaponised against democratic preferences.
Forget EU Greens: Chinese tech and Polish coal could power Europe’s industry
When Emmanuel Macron called in Davos for greater inflows of Chinese foreign direct investment into Europe, including technology transfer and tangible contributions…
Every great collapse begins with a crack
At first glance, a headline about the University of Mainz removing french fries from its cafeteria menu seems trivial.
Seizing Greenland: So, Europe, how does it feel to be Greece?
For decades, the capitals of Northern Europe have lived in a comfortable, self-righteous state.
History tells us: Ukraine into the EU will be Europe’s self-destruction
In her seminal work, The March of Folly, American historian Barbara Tuchman provided four historical examples, from the Trojan War to the Vietnam War, of absurd…
Four scenarios for the post-rules world
The Greenland psychodrama together with some of the startling opinions aired in Davos last week – especially Mark Carney’s definitive language on the end of…
Tusk’s Polish courts ‘are tearing down justice’
In Poland governed by Donald Tusk’s coalition, the justice system no longer operates independently in political cases.