ECHR has given every prisoner the right to ‘change their sex’, legal think-tank claims
“Thanks to ECHR case law, the vast majority of European countries recognise ‘gender’ as a form of private identity that anyone can choose for oneself at their…
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Slovak ministers slam presence of children at ‘erotic aid’ play
A "perverse" play performed at a Slovakian festival has prompted government uproar, with many senior officials expressing fury at children being present at the show.
What the Right now fights: the Left’s hatred of Western civilisation
There are many theories circulating at the moment as to why the political environment seems to get ever more polarised.
‘People of other cultures have a different relationship to knives,’ claims German police chief
In reaction to rising knife violence in Germany, Bonn's police chief Frank Hoever has said: "People of other cultures have a different relationship to knives."
Swedish prosecutor drops case against ‘Europapa’ artist
Joost Klein, the Dutch musician who was kicked out of May's Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour, is no longer being investigated…
Bulgarian Parliament approves ban on ‘LGBTQ propaganda’ in schools
The Bulgarian Parliament has approved a ban on "LGBTQ propaganda" in schools to tackle what it called "incitement" to "non-traditional sexual orientation" or "gender…
Now youth frisbee gets political: Israeli team forced out over ‘security threat’
Israeli teens in Belgium to take part in an international frisbee tournament have been forced out after pro-Palestine activists campaigned against their presence…
The Spy Who Loved Me? German State bans agents from having sex with targets
A German State has banned its intelligence agents from having sex with their targets.
German teens taught that US schools are still ‘divided by skin colour’
Pupils reading the book are asked to answer the following questions: "Do you see the USA as a racist society?
A mother, a widow, cut off her head and French culture finds it amusing
The opening of the Paris Olympic Games turned the state-murder of Marie Antoinette in 1793 into a comic opera and marked another milestone in the cultural death…
Olympics sex controversy: Meloni backs boxer after loss to Khelif
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has come out in support of the Italian boxer who lost an Olympic bout to Imane Khelif, the Algerian fighter who is currently…
Destroying the world in French style, anything goes, nothing stands
What we saw a week ago at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympiad did not just come out of the blue.
AfD politician fined €50,000 for calling journalist a ‘fascist’
Stephan Brandner, a politician with the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has been fined €50,000 for referring to a journalist as a "fascist".
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…
Seine still too dirty to swim in despite Macron’s ‘anti-poop plan’
The Seine in Paris is still too dirty to swim in despite French President Emmanuel Macron's plan to reduce the amount of excrement-related contaminants in the river.
Macron tells us this is France now, like a gay club in San Francisco in 1980
In the midst of the rain-soaked opening ceremony of the Olympics, President Macron tweeted: "This is France." He was right, though perhaps not in the way he intended.
German publisher drops Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy over alliance with Trump
German publishing house Ullstein Buchverlage has sparked outrage by deciding against a reprint of the sold-out German translation of Hillbilly Elegy, the 2016 autobiography…
Great art doesn’t need wokery – but London’s galleries take a different view
If you are planning a trip to London this summer, make sure that Tate Britain is on your itinerary.
France promises Israeli Olympics athletes ‘full protection’ amid left-wing uproar
Israeli athletes taking part in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will be granted "full protection", France's government has promised.
Wokeness and the Secret Service’s failure: DEI can cost lives
Shocking clues come out of the US Senate briefing on the attempt on President Trump‘s life.
France, Italy and Germany lobby the Brazilian government against use of Spanish language
France's Embassy in Brazil, along with Italy's and Germany's diplomatic missions, successfully lobbied Brazil's congress to remove Spanish from the country's secondary…
Visible knickers: bizarre sartorial tradition of women’s tennis goes undiscussed
England: the seven-letter word that permits stereotyping of the nastiest kind, not by the English, but of them.
Spaniards don’t like €9.6bn a year tourists, but quite like illegal immigrants
When you picture Barcelona, what may come to mind is the stunning modernist architecture of the Sagrada Familia.
Israel to recruit ultra-Orthodox individuals for armed forces from August
An Israeli court has ordered that military recruitment from the country's ultra-Orthodox population can go ahead, spurring an angry response from the sector.
Cologne police sees rise of extreme violence connected to ‘Mocro Mafia’
Extreme violence connected to organised crime is reaching new heights in the German city of Cologne.
Police open hundreds of hate-speech investigations over German ‘meme anthem’
German police forces have launched more than 360 investigations into instances of suspected hate-speech over the playing or singing of a German meme "anthem".
Academics and other self-indulgent frauds understand nothing of human nature
Pablo Picasso (b. 1881) and James Joyce (b.
VAT on meat should be increased, says German agriculture minister
German agriculture minister Cem Özdemir of The Greens advocated for an increase in VAT on meat products.
The Soviet mirror and the pitfalls of historical analogy
Questions of “identity” consume the present generation more than any others past.
Kemi Badenoch: the next Tory leader, heir to British heritage
July 4, 2024, Independence Day in the US and election day in the UK, will probably mark the next step in the progress of Kemi Badenoch to becoming the first British-African…