Sewer: The NYT was signalling to its audience that Kirk was not really a victim
In civilisational terms, the murder of Charlie Kirk was a random act by a deranged individual whose contemptible motives deserve little analysis and even less mercy.
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Renewed euro crisis? French debt at €3.3 trillion must be focusing minds in Frankfurt
Engineers know that system stability requires a capacity to manage unexpected accidents.
Trump sends in military to make cities safe — why isn’t Europe doing the same?
Will President Donald Trump send federal forces into crime-ridden Chicago?
I was with Trump in the Oval Office when news came that Charlie Kirk died
In an astounding coincidence, as the news arrived that Charlie Kirk, founder and head of the enlightened traditionalist movement Turning Point USA, had been assassinated,…
When cancel culture pulls the trigger: The murder of Charlie Kirk
What is cancel culture? It is murdering a young father who organised debates at universities so that adults could reason, engage in dialogue, and confront ideas.
The knife through Zarutska’s neck, the bullet through Kirk and anti-white racism
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?
Incompetent technocracy: The EU miscalculated on Google
The European Commission has not had the best year. It started off with the man they all hoped would go away, Donald Trump, returning to the American presidency.
European leaders fail on immigration and growth, the only way up is Trump
The collapse of the French government in the National Assembly this week and the very extensive demonstrations in Britain against over-indulgence of immigrants and…
Macron still doesn’t get it: All France agrees Macronism must go
The collapse of French Prime Minister François Bayrou’s government did not seem to trouble President Emmanuel Macron.
Hysterical reactions over Russia’s drone incursion are a disservice to NATO
Europe’s war-party has been hard at work online trying to stir up some kind of “Article 5 response” (i.e.
The imperious ECJ tells Poland that all rulings from its upper courts can be ignored
On 4 September, in case C-225/22, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared that Polish courts must disregard rulings of higher courts if these…
‘We are the people of England, and we have not spoken yet’
This summer has been one of simmering tension in parts of Britain, if, happily, not to the extent many predicted before the break.
Flirting with the guillotine: France’s fiasco threatens the EU as we know it
France’s political stage, once a grand théâtre of Molière’s wit, now plays a tragedy.
West cannot win against a unified Russia-India-China axis
In the brutal calculus of international relations, good intentions make poor strategy. The Ukrainian war presents us with this uncomfortable truth in stark relief.
Arnhem myth: The huge airborne operation could never have been successful
On Wednesday, September 17th, the monochrome-rainbow fictions of the Great Airborne Thrust for Freedom will once again be celebrated in the Dutch town of Arnhem.
Norway election: Stoltenberg crushes any chance of right-wing government
Norwegians will vote for their next government on Sept 8, but the national-conservative and anti-immigration Progress Party, despite being the second-largest party…
The Lisbon funicular disaster is further evidence that Europe is falling apart
Lisbon’s Elevador da Glória has long been one of the Portuguese capital’s most beloved landmarks. It has now become infamous.
Europe confuses symbolic gestures on energy with strategic effectiveness
The most striking example of Western strategic confusion lies in energy policy.
EU elites, watch and learn: Cracker Barrel populism comes for Europe
The odd saga of the Cracker Barrel logo redesign was likely mysterious to many Europeans, should they have noticed the story at all.
Shanghai Blues: We risk losing more than money when pushing India to BRICS
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.
Looming budget crises means the Right needs more than just immigration policy
It is far from ground-breaking to say that the populist Right is surging across the West.
Peace in Ukraine requires a territorial fudge
There is much scepticism, on all sides, about the possibility of a breakthrough in Donald Trump’s diplomacy to end the Ukraine war.
Peace could save European economy — so why are EU leaders sabotaging it?
Europe’s economies suffer under the Ukraine war’s weight, yet Europe's leaders cling to conflict over peace.
Trump knows Putin has overplayed his hand
We are finally coming to a decisive moment in the Ukraine war.
Court gives muscle: Children must be protected from ideological coercion by the State
The recent judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States in Mahmoud v.
Nothing simple or cheap about the ‘friction, energy and violence’ of wind power
The answer lies in the word: mill, from the Latin word, molinun, grind. Its essence is friction, energy and violence, as in the word maelstrom.
Our ruling class want ‘global citizenship’ to replace national identity
We are witnessing something unprecedented in human history: A civilisation's ruling class systematically undermining the very foundations that made their prosperity…
Au revoir, Bayrou? What a Le Pen-Bardella tandem could mean for France
France is exhausted.
Suppressing free speech and free votes: EU intent on crippling democratic resilience
The EU is justly proud of the liberal democracies it nurtured as it expanded beyond its original founding members.
Ignoring the populist-right vote creates chaos in parliaments
Chaos! That seems to be the name of the game when it comes to French politics the past few years.