Iran tortures women but Western feminists only reply with ‘context’ and ‘relativism’
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CULTURE WAR DEMOCRACY
The latest events in Iran have once again exposed a familiar and uncomfortable pattern in Western politics. Women are beaten, imprisoned, killed.
EU BUBBLE WAR
Pakistan was never supposed to matter to Europe’s Middle East policy. Yet today, it suddenly does.
IMMIGRATION
New Year’s Eve is meant to mark renewal. Across much of Europe this year, it instead exposed a reality that political leaders strive to conceal.
EU BUBBLE TRADE
The tractors returned to Brussels before Christmas. Farmers once again blocked streets, surrounded EU buildings, and made their anger impossible to ignore.
CORRUPTION IMMIGRATION
According to the dominant narrative, in Nuremberg, the West put on trial those who attempted to destroy its foundations of liberty and democracy.
FROM THE CAPITALS TRADE
Vladimir Putin lands in Delhi. Narendra Modi greets him with full honours.
WAR
Putin is not hiding his intentions. On December 2, 2025, at the VTB forum in Moscow, he stated, “The most radical way is to cut Ukraine off from the sea”.
CULTURE WAR
For God’s sake, those maniacs now simply did away with the face of Jesus.
EU BUBBLE WAR
Let us begin with the numbers.
EU BUBBLE WAR
Trump set out the original peace plan, following lengthy bilateral negotiations between the White House and the Kremlin.
WAR
It had been their major goal since their summer 2024 offensive.
CULTURE WAR FROM THE CAPITALS
If a tweet can bury a genocide, Geert Wilders just posted it. On November 10, 2025, the Dutch leader wrote: “Indeed Ataturk was a true leader, Erdogan a dangerous Islamist.
EU BUBBLE IMMIGRATION
A rusty trawler sails past Gavdos at dawn.
EU BUBBLE IMMIGRATION
El Fasher fell last week. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) - United Arab Emirates-backed Janjaweed militia on steroids - went door-to-door.
EU BUBBLE IMMIGRATION
Peace talks between embattled Pakistan and Afghanistan collapsed earlier this week in Istanbul.
DEMOCRACY EU BUBBLE
They are coming for your body and your wallet.
CORRUPTION WAR
Nigeria’s Christians are being slaughtered. Over 62,000 since 2009, 7,087 killed in 2025 alone.
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
A few days ago, Greta Thunberg sailed to Gaza with her comrades, only to end up in a taxpayer-funded rescue by the Greek government.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
The news from Prague unsettles Brussels. Andrej Babiš is back, prime minister once more.
EU BUBBLE TRADE
The mask is off.
DEMOCRACY EU BUBBLE
Why is Europe shrinking in confidence, in production, in prosperity? Why do citizens from Dublin to Athens feel that their lives are harder than they ought to be?
CORRUPTION IMMIGRATION
We have sounded this alarm before, but things are getting worse.
EU BUBBLE
Spare us the drama, please, Estonia. Three Russian MiG-31s skim your Gulf of Finland airspace for 12 minutes on September 19, 2025 and Tallinn goes berserk.
CULTURE WAR IMMIGRATION
London roared with defiance last weekend, as hundreds of thousands rallied to reclaim England’s spirit. St.
CULTURE WAR FREE SPEECH
A world where one is attacked, even murdered, because of the colour of one’s skin, is something we in the West are supposed to have left behind, right?
EU BUBBLE FINANCE
France’s political stage, once a grand théâtre of Molière’s wit, now plays a tragedy.
EU BUBBLE
There is a 1991 Russian rock blues song named Shanghai Blues. It is a powerful tune, where Slavic emotion meets crooner style in a captivating performance.
EU BUBBLE TRADE
Europe’s economies suffer under the Ukraine war’s weight, yet Europe's leaders cling to conflict over peace.
IMMIGRATION
Christine Lagarde is one of those people whose business is to know better than us what is good for us. Now she insists Europe’s economy needs migrants to grow.
DEMOCRACY ELECTIONS
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s wartime president, claims to embody democracy, but governs as a solo act.