Europe
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The cost of the Paris Olympics will never be known, but whatever it might be the French taxpayer will foot the bill
September 1, 2024
9 mins
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This is the paradox of the War Against the Past: those who are waging it are, inadvertently, denying themselves the capacity to win. For if your past is evil, if your centuries-old story is defined by bitterness and bad faith, how can you possibly hope to redeem yourself?
August 29, 2024
13 mins
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Clark’s account is dizzying, traversing what he sagely calls the only truly European revolution. He moves across France, Prussia, Hungary, Wallachia, Poland, Croatia, Spain, and beyond.
August 29, 2024
9 mins
The latest
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Russia has long insisted that in return for peace, Ukraine must give up the 20 per cent of its territory that Russia currently occupies as well as any aspiration of joining NATO. These terms were unacceptable to Ukraine.
August 29, 2024
9 mins
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Losing your state once may be reckoned misfortune but losing it twice begins to look like carelessness. Reunited in 1990, the Fatherland became a nation for the third time and has since acted with more caution, realism and perhaps wisdom than everyone in Europe and America has always liked.
August 25, 2024
51 mins
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As the Dutch political scientist Cas Mudde said some years ago, 'Populism is an illiberal democratic response to undemocratic liberalism'. When the voters insist that something isn’t working, as the recent EU Parliament election demonstrates, it is this commitment to raw democracy that manifests itself at the ballot box
August 25, 2024
10 mins
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The great ambition of post-Soviet Poles has been to put as much distance between themselves and all things Russia as possible. That grim history has emphasised the truth of the old maxim, 'If you want peace, prepare for war'. That’s why Warsaw is doubling defence spending, building Europe's most powerful armed forces and rejecting the EU demand that it accept massive immigration
November 10, 2023
20 mins
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One of Viktor Orbán’s leading advisers is Balázs Orbán, who shares the same surname but is not related. A former lecturer in law, he is the equivalent of a court scholar and the ideal person to ask about the country's long history of subjugation, the Fidesz government and the international Left's efforts to smear a vibrant democracy as a fascist state.
July 27, 2023
25 mins
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What is happening in America disguised behind Black Lives Matter and in France behind the pension protests and subsequent riots could burst upon us as a consequence of the Voice movement. The causes used by the extremists are a smokescreen for their attacks on Western society. President Macron has used a word to which we will need to become accustomed — 'decivilisation'
July 4, 2023
16 mins
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Journalistic critics of SFIRA have been marginalised into silence by SFIRA smear tactics and legal threats from SFIRA lawyers. Very few Irish journalists will now take on the SFIRA: the personal price is too high, not least because the Sinn Fein arm of the SFIRA alliance is the wealthiest 'political' party in Ireland
December 30, 2022
21 mins
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The energy issue is a case study in how a political elite, infused with abstract norms and transnational idealism about the end of history, created the perfect conditions for the revenge of political realism. Whilst Europe eschewed the hard truths of geopolitics, geopolitics happened on its doorstep
December 22, 2022
8 mins
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Foreign journalists struggled to explain why the misguided Hungarians should not only have voted for Victor Orbán in a free election, but did so in record numbers. The reasons are there if -- and it is a big 'if' -- those observers cared to look beyond the left talking points and recognise his greatest achievement: the political feat of luring voters who cordially detest him
July 7, 2022
20 mins