Macron vs Salvini: the ideological battle for Europe’s future
Personal antipathy between the two men is turning into a contest for European hearts and minds
Europe
Thursday
Thursday
The anti-Brexit movement has one big advantage: their opponents are in disarray
Behind the bid to stop Brexit lies a sense of clarity
Sweden’s political panic attack
As violent crime soars, the Sweden Democrats gain support
Tuesday
Fact check: Charlie Kirk’s beloved US-UK violent crime stat
The result may surprise you
Monday
Fact check: New York Times’s London foodie ‘knowledge’
You’d think they would have learned after last time…
Thursday
Why America’s détente with Putin makes Belarus nervous
‘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.’
Macron’s summer of discontent
The President of France’s biggest enemy is himself, as his personal style is getting up the noses of many French people
Wednesday
America, meet Tommy Robinson – if you must
The Cary Grant of the alt-right?
Monday
Father Morris won’t be the last priest expelled from campus for having the ‘wrong’ beliefs
The chaplain led his parish in a ‘Rosary of reparation for the gross offence to God which is Pride Glasgow’.
Thursday
Boris Johnson: Why we sent the jihadi Beatles for trial in America
The diary of the former British Foreign Secretary.
The more extreme the left’s screeches, the greater the populist surge
If the Democratic Party are wondering why they’re losing young white men, they need look no further than Sweden.
Wednesday
How significant are Trump’s trade talks with the EU?
The President is declaring victory on the European front of his incipient trade war.
Monday
How NATO became the most sacred cow in the barn
Before Trump’s visit the Senate approved by a near-Soviet margin of 97-2 a resolution expressing ‘ironclad’ support for NATO.
Sunday
This is monarchy for the Netflix generation
The less we hear about the Royal family, the better. With Meghan and Harry, this is exactly the reverse of what we’ll get.
Friday
How the British royal family became a very American obsession
The nuptials of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle show the depth of American royalism.
Thursday
The disturbing case of Alfie Evans shames Britain
There was never going to be a happy ending to the story of Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old boy treated at Alder Hey hospital, Liverpool, for an undiagnosed neurological condition that destroyed his brain. But somehow the British establishment has contrived to make a tragic situation worse – to the point where large swathes of European … Read more
Monday
Why hasn’t Italy joined the strikes on Syria?
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
Wednesday
Sharia law and the relative mercies of French justice
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
Tuesday
Meghan Markle and the return of American Anglophilia
Prince Harry’s imminent wedding to Meghan Markle will reinvigorate the dying special relationship between Britain and America. It is a boost for the fading American regard for the monarchy. In America, the mother country is increasingly the forgotten country – and it has been fading for a century, ever since the First World War. As … Read more
Saturday
The consequence of this new sexual counter-revolution? No sex at all
‘Feminism’ isn’t producing guides for helping men. It is producing manifestos for torturing them