Before Trump, no one had a plan to bring Ukraine war to a conclusion
In the aftermath of the rather acrimonious meeting in the White House on Friday between President Zelensky of Ukraine and the president and vice president of the United States,…
Time to end ‘pandemical nervosity’ in Europe over Trump
This has been an eventful political week for Europe.
Many NATO members are as opposed to Ukraine membership as is Russia
Since my column last week where I attempted to examine President Trump's Gaza proposals in terms that would be more plausible to Europeans than his initial presentation, two…
Trump’s plan for Gaza: a new start on an intractable problem
There have been the predictable negative reactions around Europe about President Trump's comments on Gaza, and particularly the proposal effectively to remove the current…
In treating Canada as an enemy, Trump made a serious mistake
There is a message in the current tariff imbroglio between the United States and Canada, Mexico, and China that can be usefully taken on board by other countries with extensive…
Trump hits Davos with nationalist capitalism, chastened elite forced to accept
Speaking from the White House, President Trump last week sounded a stirring tocsin of nationalist capitalism to the usual audience in the grim Swiss mountain town of Davos…
Trump to stop all aid to Ukraine? Claptrap
The fantasyland of contemporary Western European notions of the Western Alliance was well-illustrated this week by an article published by the former foreign minister of Spain…
Trump remembers Reagan: let the hostages go or ‘Hell to pay’
Despite the slightly pathetic effort of the departing Biden regime to claim that it is the diligence of the president and his secretary of state that has brought the war in…
The mass rape of young girls, British establishment says, ‘So what?’
The grooming gang scandal in Britain has been a long time coming and while aspects of it and some allegations may be excessive (or not), it lifts the rock on the widespread…
Trump defeats the self-loathing agenda of ‘the great liberal death wish’
Even in Europe, which generally likes weak American administrations devoted to endless collegiality with its balky and condescending European allies, there are signs of relief…
Collapse of Syria final death knell of 1919 attempts by Allies to build nations
Whatever else it may be, the collapse of the Assad government in Syria must rank as the final unflattering death knell of the attempts at nation-building by the victorious…
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UK government and its flea-bitten policies out of step with new rhythm of the West
Chancellor Rachel Reeves' recent budget has deepened the decline of respect for the Starmer government, as it leverages tax increases amidst widespread discontent in Britain.
European attitude to Israel shows moral rot among leaders
It is both a pitiful and contemptible state of affairs when within a few days of each other the pope writes, at least as a personal reflection and not on behalf of the whole…
Trump understands West must end Ukraine war to pull Russia from China
Fortunately, the Western European governments, less than two weeks after the American election, are starting to come to their senses and recognize that the incoming administration…
Germany: forget greens, time to become a co-leader of a renovated West
The collapse of the German traffic light coalition of the Social Democrats (red), Greens (green), and Free Democrats (amber), isn’t either surprising or altogether unwelcome.
Trump for prosperity and peace in Ukraine, no wonder Europeans hate him
A glance at Western European media is all that is needed to be reminded once again of how little Europe understands America.
French economy ‘at the edge of the precipice’
There is more than the usual curiosity that accompanies news of budgetary disappointment in an important country in the case of the shambles of public accounts now under review…
EU in economic stagnation, but Starmer imagines it is the UK’s salvation
Part of the astonishingly clumsy launch of the Starmer government in the UK is the inexplicable faith, frozen in aspic, of the new prime minister and his senior colleagues,…
Despotic green policies lead to impoverishment and unemployment
As many have predicted, including in this column, the economic terrorism of government green extremists in one country after another has succeeded in splitting their left-wing…
Commend Israel for emancipating the world from ‘odious infestations of terrorists’
As this is written, the world is still waiting for Israel to strike the blow that it has promised against Iran in response to Iran firing 180 ballistic missiles at Israel…
Tories could fail again, part of a grim political season in the West
Anyone reasonably conversant with British history knows not to underestimate that redoubtable country that has made such an immense contribution to civilisation: the language…
Wagenknecht and the rest need to remember who helped Germany rebuild
It is a hackneyed cliché to say about Germany that it was too late unified, took too long to decide whether it was an Eastern or Western-facing country, and could not satisfy…
Ukraine could be Europe’s moment, if the will is there
Western Europe could quite properly see the Ukraine war as it now stands as a great opportunity.
Anti-climax? In the debate, nobody hit a pitfall, nobody rose to the occasion
The Trump-Harris debate on Tuesday night was something of an anti-climax.
Hamas butchery goes on, UK response is arms embargo against Israel
The British Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced this week a partial arms embargo against Israel, the day after the discovery of the bodies of the six hostages who had…
In France Macron helps fanatics and socialists fight authentic Right
It was a widespread assumption that French president Emmanuel Macron called the unnecessary parliamentary elections in June and July on the assumption that the Rassemblement…
Rejoice Republicans, even questionable polls show Trump would win narrowly
European observers should not be deceived by the window-rattling ululations of joy emitted by the formidable and disciplined Democratic Party machine and its hallelujah chorus…
Immigration: civil, patient Britons have had enough, yet politicians will not listen
The recent rioting in Britain, which has been the most peaceable and law-abiding, heavily populated, country in the Western world for centuries, does not indicate the rise…
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 that…
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 around media…