EU forces 10-year-old USB-C charging point on everything mobile
The European Union’s imposition of the USB-C charging port on all items that make modern life possible, and yes explicitly including handheld mobile phones, portable…
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What will the EU do when cars become commodities?
Volkswagen has defused the labour crisis sparked by its announcement of impending plant closures with a deal that agrees to keep these factories open and reduce…
Conservative populists must recognise the source of their power
2024 was the year that conservative populism went from being an irritant to a force.
Musk tells the truth, Left and Right have failed German nation
Over the last few weeks, the German intellectual class was in absolute outrage: Serial-Entrepreneur and enfant terrible for the status quo elite Elon Musk published…
In the Middle East this time, it is all different: Trump is back
Just twenty years ago this week, the world’s greatest scholar of Islam, Sir Martin Gilbert, wrote of George W Bush and Tony Blair that they “may well, with the…
‘Progressive democracy’ means destroying the power of the people’s vote
If you listen to establishmentarians in Washington and Brussels, liberal democracy is under threat from anti-democratic populist movements.
Part II: Neo-Imperialism is making a comeback, time to choose your hegemon
What is a "pole“?
New crimes, new fears: German migration and national safety top political debate
Christmas is now a target.
Merry Christmas to everyone, because it is worth preserving for all
On December 20 yet another attack on a Christmas market took place in Europe, this time in Magdeburg, Germany.
Ireland aligns itself with Hamas and Iran, heading for terrible reckoning
A strange insanity is sweeping across Europe, with state after state seemingly dedicated to destroying both its own credibility and very existence.
Turkey and Israel in Syria: Common ground for the best of enemies
They are supposed to be geopolitical arch-rivals. They are also historical opponents.
Merz or Scholz: German politics to continue on the same self-destructive path
The upcoming German elections will not only define the future of one of the two political and economic pillars of the European Union, they will also test the leadership…
Brexit’s Nigel Farage, with the rich men at Mar-a-Lago
The cat really is amongst Britain's political pigeons.
The fall of Assad: four and a half implications
History is not merely on the move again – as we have become used to saying in response to the great succession of extraordinary political and military events since…
Stop popular Kickl: Austria gets ready to form a government that will fail
Since 1945, Austria has only been led by the centre-right People’s Party and the Socialist Party, often in coalition with one another.
Is it time for Neo-Imperialism?
Imperialism is making a comeback, which is why I decided to turn this column into a three-part series to put forward my argument as to why that is the case.
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…
EU must rebuild Syria or Syrian immigrants will stay in Europe
Thirty-three years ago, Jacques Poos, President of the Council of the EU, announced that the impending civil war in Yugoslavia was “Europe’s hour” to take…
Georgia is Russia’s legit area-of-interest: what is the EU trying to do there?
Perhaps fully 98 per cent of the population of the EU is unaware that the plan to admit the former Soviet state of Georgia into the union is proceeding, just as…
Brexiteers voted ‘Out!’ but are left still tied to foreign regulators they did not elect
Sir Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, is starting to slide the United Kingdom back into the EU.
To express ourselves as we please, that is what elites fear most
TikTok, the Chinese-owned short-form social media platform, has lately been in the spotlight on both sides of the Atlantic. Not without good reason.
“Saving” the state by breaking the law? A Roman warning
The notion that in affairs of state the ends justify the means long predates the writings of Machiavelli, the figure most identified with this idea.
Kallas wants US to be afraid of Russia, but can’t even get Europe to be afraid of Russia
The European Union has no “foreign minister.
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…
High-born French and low-born Italians against Chinese Commies: car wars
European car companies are locked in an increasingly bitter struggle to maintain profits and market share amid a secular downturn in sales of internal combustion…
Syria, a Petrie dish of rapine and warring baronies
Dystopia was once upon a time a filmic theme park, wherein a director could imagine all sorts of random tyrannies and arbitrary agents of terror.
Von der Leyen has just turned the EU into a cheerleader for Islamist terrorism
Take a moment to read this tweet: “The cruel Assad dictatorship has collapsed. This historic change in the region offers opportunities but is not without risks.
EU does not want a member state in Georgia, it wants a client state
If you would hear it from the liberal internationalists, the battle for the future of democracy is being fought in Tbilisi.
No more precise documentation, now truth has gone missing in war
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.
Trump can make world energy prices tumble, hitting Putin hard
A negotiated peace between Russia and Ukraine shortly after Donald Trump takes office in January of 2025 seems more and more likely.