In Tusk’s Poland, justice isn’t blind
Equality before the law is only possible when justice is blind—administered to all indiscriminately, without fear or favour.
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If Europeans were in Israel’s place, would they defend themselves?
I don’t trust the overwhelming, unanimous indignation, nor the sea of Palestinian flags unfurled on land, sea, and air at film festivals, in stadiums, cycling…
Czech elections: Wet Right being replaced by Prague version of Nigel Farage
Go back to the start of democratic life for Czechs, to 1991, the year Soviet troops left what was then Czechoslovakia.
Brussels sells out Europe’s tobacco farmers and their 80,000 jobs to Beijing
The mask is off.
The rape of Europe: When civilisation surrenders to barbarism
The acquittal of ten suspects in a Vienna sexual abuse case involving a twelve-year-old girl represents far more than a judicial failure.
The right-wing in Poland ready to return to power: When? Will anyone betray them?
A few days ago, Polish Sejm Marshal Szymon Hołownia, the speaker of the lower house, asked in the parliamentary chamber whether Prime Minister Donald Tusk wanted…
Hybrid warfare doesn’t work
The latest round of Russian provocations, inaugurated by the large drone incursion into Poland on September 10, has sent the Europeans into a tizzy.
More EU defence, but where is the money?
The European Union’s schoolmarm in chief, Ursula von der Leyen, has called her unruly charges together this week in Copenhagen, where she will rap knuckles and…
Snobbish British historian can never get over fatuous vitriol towards Trump
The veteran British military historian and newspaperman Sir Max Hastings, who was a competent editor of The Daily Telegraph when I had the honour to be that newspaper’s…
Respect it: The veto is the guarantee for a smaller nation that it has a genuine say
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?
Presidential election in the (almost) least important country of the EU
The single reason outsiders should pay any attention to the presidential election of the westernmost and (almost) least important part of the European Union is to…
European Parliament immunity: ‘To my friends, everything; to my enemies, the law’
Few aphorisms better capture the spirit of our age of authoritarian liberalism than the one attributed to former Peruvian President Óscar Raymundo Benavides: “To…
The West’s revolutionary moment: When stability becomes the exception
In 1917, while Germany fought Russia in a devastating conflict, revolutionary conditions erupted within the Russian Empire, ultimately toppling the Tsarist regime…
What did the UK get from Brexit? Here are 75 benefits of independence
One of the common cries from unreconciled Remainers in Britain is: “Can you give me just one benefit of Brexit?
EU handouts fund Pakistan authoritarian power and drive migrant invasion of Europe
We have sounded this alarm before, but things are getting worse.
Trump has just washed his hands of the Ukraine war
Of all of President Trump’s social media posts, it is the one he fired off on Tuesday that future historians may pick as marking the biggest turning point of the…
The Strange and Self-Inflicted Death of Tory England
The classic book The Strange Death of Liberal England attempted to explain the rapid decline into irrelevance of the once-powerful Liberal Party.
The determination of Trump means the reviving economic and military power of the US
A variety of events in the last two weeks have accentuated a trend by which the United States steadily enhances its position of leadership and authority in the West,…
Fire von der Leyen: ‘Blistering’ EP resolutions coming at her
October is right around the corner. In Tallinn, the snow is getting impatient, ready to fall. In Vienna, the sturm wine has arrived and is being eagerly poured.
The reckoning is coming to France, the most spendthrift country in the world
The belief that government, of itself, can make life better is the great heresy that now threatens the very future of France.
How the EU paid €17 billion to create false public opinion in Europe
Whether at the Brussels level or in our national states, everyone knows something of liberal-leftist groups and of figures embraced by the European Commission.
No military has yet learned how to face the danger of drones
Through the night of September 9, Polish airspace was invaded.
Give us a break, Estonia and Co, with your sky-high EU hypocrisy
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.
Poland is the best partner for US, with strong army, shared values and vast energy
Poland and the whole of Central Europe are once again at the centre of the West’s strategic calculations: A region that chose sovereignty against globalist designs,…
It is rather simple: Will our nations survive or soon dissolve into pulp?
London roared with defiance last weekend, as hundreds of thousands rallied to reclaim England’s spirit. St.
America’s policy of ‘containing’ China is on the brink
The scenario that Brussels Signal warned about half a year ago in this very column seems to be coming to pass, with Pentagon leaks suggesting that an epochal shift…
The EU sanctions on Russia have had no effect on Putin’s economy
Eighteen! That’s the number of sanction packages which have been passed on Russia by the European Union since the expansion of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022.
Tusk weakened by the dawn raids and brutality of his government
The nomination by right-wing leader Jarosław Kaczyński, of the dynamic Karol Nawrocki, a candidate from outside the world of politics, and a good election campaign…
Western demographic data looks dark: The future belongs to those who show up
The most profound geopolitical shifts of our time are not being decided in boardrooms or battlefields, but in maternity wards—or increasingly, in their conspicuous…
EU influence wears off: European court makes a decision, Poland says, “So what?”
When Polish Justice Minister and General Prosecutor Waldemar Żurek sat down in his office a week ago to record a piece of video for his social media accounts, he…