Europe

Americans often ask me ‘what is happening?’ in British politics at the moment. Well, here is my answer…

Interests, not ideologies, seem to be the driving force behind nationalist movements worldwide

Electoral fraud in Botkyrka would have changed the result

The result may surprise you

‘If we don’t survive these years, if we will fail, it means we will have to become part of some other state, or they will simply wipe their feet on us.’

The Cary Grant of the alt-right?

Before Trump’s visit the Senate approved by a near-Soviet margin of 97-2 a resolution expressing ‘ironclad’ support for NATO.

The nuptials of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle show the depth of American royalism.

Italy’s caretaker government has refused to allow crucial bases to be used for intervention let alone Italy’s armed forces. The stance of Italy’s right is identical to Jeremy Corbyn’s in Britain. The two populist parties – Five Star and Lega – currently negotiating to try to form a government – are anyway pro-Putin (like their soul … Read more

For many years, the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Tariq Ramadan, has been one of my closest enemies. In Switzerland and France this Islamist dauphin had a slightly hard time establishing his reputation. This was not just due to his poor scholarship (the basis of which lay in a fawning book about his … Read more