Ukraine is cursed to have such unreliable allies
Of all the Trump administration’s many betrayals of Ukraine, its actions over the past week constitute arguably the most abhorrent. First, the White House agreed to pay Russia billions of…
Of all the Trump administration’s many betrayals of Ukraine, its actions over the past week constitute arguably the most abhorrent. First, the White House agreed to pay Russia billions of…
The populist revolt may have gripped Western nations for over a decade now, but it has remained wilfully misunderstood by our political and cultural elites. Countless academics and commentators have…
‘I am not proposing that the UK considers rejoining the EU.’ So said Andy Burnham to the voters of Makerfield on 18 May 2026, a month before the by-election that…
Something significant happened in Strasbourg this week, yet hardly anybody seems to have noticed. No, it wasn’t the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s annual State of the European…
‘There can be no sugar-coating these results’, conceded German chancellor Friedrich Merz last night, following a historic, humiliating defeat for his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the regional elections. ‘It…
No sooner had Donald Trump announced his ‘deal’ with Denmark and Greenland, granting the US ‘permanent control over [the Arctic territory’s] security’, than two sharply opposing views of the deal’s…
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, delivered her ‘State of the European Union’ speech in the European Parliament on Wednesday. The now annual tradition is the…
‘Anything is possible’ was the slogan projected on to a giant screen at the Alternative for Germany (AfD) victory party in Magdeburg last night. And the resurgent AfD really had…
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In the wake of the Brexit vote in 2016, it soon became received wisdom across the West that the UK’s exit from the European Union was a unique event. Other…