All News Is Bad News

Hold the presses! More Germans trust Vladimir Putin’s Russia than Trump’s United States. This is earth-shattering news, a scoop like no other. If this were 1969 the moon ...

Valle de los Caídos

Don’t Touch the Valley

On Sunday, hundreds of Spaniards descended on the Valley of the Fallen (Valle de los Caídos), a Catholic basilica and monument near the capital Madrid. The left-wing newspaper El ...

The Tory Taboo

The great lie by Leavers before the referendum was that there would be no losers as a result of Brexit. But here’s a bigger twist to the story: There will be no winners, ...

A Matter of Sovereignty

The word "€œsovereignty"€ was bandied about during our E.U. referendum last year, and there were many who said that Edward Heath, the prime minister who took us into what was ...

Elysee Palace

French Twists

The Fifth French Republic was created in 1959 by General de Gaulle, and its constitution was devised to give France strong and stable government. It has now lasted longer than any ...

Le Grand Remplacement

Nobody seems to know exactly how fast France, the cultural heartland of the West over the past millennium, is being demographically transformed. But I have found a way to estimate ...

Angela Merkel

Game of States

The question of whether Britain should be in or out of the European Union might seem like a complex technical matter upon which people of goodwill might differ. But nationalism ...

The Immigration Gambit

I haven"€™t actually made up my mind about this whole Brexit thing. The British will vote in a referendum on whether to leave the European Union on June 23, but the debate has ...

Decking the Red Whale

Perhaps it’s the sadistic caveman in me, but I have a lifelong love for the “sweet science” of boxing. I especially love watching unstoppable knockout artists ...

Sour Grapes Over Poland

Poland has been showered with what seems like excessive and surprisingly negative media attention of late. True, the Poles elected a new president in the summer, and a new ...

The Cologne Cover-up

I hope the Cologne mass sexual assaults will be of lasting and huge significance to European history, and I even think they might. (Recently arrived Arab migrants sexually ...

Francois Hollande

Against the Law

Credit where credit is due: President Hollande"€”who until then had never seemed à la hauteur, as the French say, of his exalted position, appearing more like the deputy head ...

Marine Le Pen or Tashfeen Malik?

French history is currently speeding up, which ought to be of intense interest to American Republicans pondering whom to nominate in 2016. While many Americans enjoy engaging in ...

Budapest, Hungary

Under Siege, Under Scrutiny

"€œThis refugee flow has outraged the right wing,"€ Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director, explained in an interview with The New York Times. "€œIf you ...

Fundamentally Wrong

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union was drafted in 2000 and came into force in 2009 when the European Union countries signed the Treaty of Lisbon. The aim of ...

Europe’s Real Existential Crisis

However the Greek crisis ends, whether with Athens leaving the eurozone, or submitting and accepting austerity at the dictates of its creditors, the European Union appears headed ...


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