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OPINION
London's Mayor Sadiq Khan has ordered the covering of Sir Winston Churchill's statue, igniting widespread criticism regarding the perceived marginalization of historical figures…
US WAR
We seem finally to have reached the dénouement in the long, extremely one-sided, and comparatively bloodless war the United States and Israel have conducted with Iran.
CULTURE WAR IMMIGRATION
The now infamous Henry Nowak tragedy in Britain, from last December, is now seen throughout the Western world as indicative of the terrible dangers of the cult of self-hate…
WAR
With the focus on the Middle East, there has been comparatively little attention paid for some months to the Ukraine War.
DEMOCRACY US
A piece in the London Spectator of May 2 by Rod Liddle is a reminder of the imperishable spiteful envy towards America that still disturbs the minds of many of the British.
FROM THE CAPITALS
It does not seem that the world is paying much attention to the vacuum in international relations and public policy that has been created by the sudden transformation of the…
EU BUBBLE US
The problems of the Western Alliance have not been caused by oversensitive hurt feelings and are not an appropriate subject for the kind of name-calling that has gone on both…
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
All those whose psychological equilibrium is disturbed by the ability of the United States to take dramatic unilateral action without collegialising its decisions with a bunch…
US WAR
As this piece is written on Tuesday afternoon, the Iran war continues to be unprecedented in a number of respects.
CULTURE WAR EU BUBBLE
The intemperate exchange between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV over the weekend said nothing flattering or even positive about either of them.
US WAR
As this is written we are awaiting confirmation that the United States and Israel will escalate their attacks on Iran which has continued to respond frivolously to demands…
EU BUBBLE US
Just before the start of the Second Gulf War in 2003, British Prime Minister Tony Blair approached me as a Conservative member of the House of Lords and asked for my and my…
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s statement last week that the Iran war is a ”disastrous mistake” and a violation of international law is an outrage.
EU BUBBLE WAR
The Western European NATO allies of the United States appear to be celebrating what they mistakenly believe is the discomfort the Americans and Israelis are now encountering…
ELECTIONS WAR
It is emerging that the overwhelming US and Israeli defeat of the armed forces and repressive police of the Islamic Republic of Iran is already beginning to alter the international…
DEMOCRACY EU BUBBLE
Some readers will recall that last week I posed the question of what sort of an alliance the British government might think it had with United States after denying that country…
CORRUPTION ELECTIONS
The blunderbuss British government of Keir Starmer, now wallowing in the upper teens in the polls, struggling to keep a paper-thin lead over the Conservatives, the Liberal…
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
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 framework…
FINANCE TRADE
European incomprehension of President Trump has now been stretched to reluctant acknowledgement of the success of his economic policies with dire warnings of the approach…
CORRUPTION CULTURE WAR
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 country.
EU BUBBLE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
In this space last week I recounted with a mixture of sadness and amusement the farce of Greenland that had already almost reached Monty Python proportions.
EU BUBBLE
The unfolding of the Greenland controversy has already become one of the most extraordinary episodes in the entire 237-year history of the presidency of the United States.
EU BUBBLE WAR
As this is written, I continue to watch my preferred American news channel in hopes of hearing of the arrival in the Iranian airspace of the US Air Force and Naval Air Force…
EU BUBBLE US
It has been disappointing but not entirely surprising to see the widespread hysteria in Europe in support of the illegitimate Maduro gangster regime in Venezuela, and the…
EU BUBBLE
There was a widespread European reaction of offended sensibilities last week to the customary statement of a relatively new US administration of its strategic objectives.
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
The conduct of the great office of prime minister of the United Kingdom in the last 15 years has no precedent in the history of that position, which is generally deemed to…
CULTURE WAR IMMIGRATION
The sudden upsurge of anti-Semitism in the Western world has been a shocking and disgusting development.
CORRUPTION FROM THE CAPITALS
The plans that President Trump has been carefully developing to force a reasonable peace upon Russian President Putin after his nearly four years of unsuccessful aggressive…
CORRUPTION ELECTIONS
An article last week in the online site of Time magazine by the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, well illustrates the growing crisis of misgovernment of our greatest cities.
FROM THE CAPITALS
The revelation by a whistle-blower, which a review of news film confirms, that the BBC deliberately spliced what it represented as an accurate excerpt of a speech by President…