Europe

Ten days after Thanksgiving, news watchers were exposed to one of the more culturally incongruous images in recent history: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron beaming in front of the British Prime Minister’s house at 10 Downing Street, giving each other the locked-thumbs handshake familiar to African-American jazz musicians and professional athletes of the 1970s. Right on, brother! At that moment, according to Ukrainian media, thousands of Zelensky’s soldiers had been encircled by Russian troops near the city of Pokrovsk (or Krasnoarmiisk, as it may well soon be renamed). Large gaps were appearing in the Ukrainian front, desertions were rising and Russians appeared to be opening a

If I were a bookie, I would be making odds now about when the European Union will finally unravel and die. Unless there is an imminent and drastic course correction, the blessed event cannot be far off.  I might need a Doomsday Clock akin to the one publicized by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Their clock hovers near midnight, which signifies nuclear Armageddon, the minute hand pushed closer or farther away from the blast depending on minatory world events. My clock would measure the EU’s proximity to implosion. Its recent decision to fine Elon Musk and his company X €120 million for “non-compliance with transparency obligations” has me nudging

Now, vague, homogenized curricula require little factual knowledge

It looks like the British public are far more in tune with the realities of immigration than the so-called experts advising the US paper of record

Chief among concerns is how the military might react to a bad deal

The continent cannot afford to fund Kyiv’s war effort

‘Islamo-Gauchisme’ is now de rigueur among the far-left

The idea is proving very unpopular with the country’s youth

Jordan Bardella could repeat Zohran Mamdani’s feat on the French right

What he calls the ‘resurgence of democracy’ is really the bureaucratization of thought

This week has been a tale of two presidents

Like J.D. Vance and Donald Trump, in an age of immediate media, Nigel Farage’s great weapon is that he is human

The European team won the Ryder Cup – so what are they moaning about?

At the Ryder Cup, America’s golfers are losing on the links, and the country’s fans are losing in the stands