Conrad Black

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  • May 8, 2025
    It seems now, finally, to be the turn of the United Kingdom to join in the Western World’s move toward the populist Right. 
  • Apr 30, 2025
    The Canadian election on Monday only partially confirmed the trend of the last Italian and Argentinian elections, the US election in November and the subsequent German election, of a...
  • Apr 16, 2025
    Europe was accustomed for so long to an alliance with the United States where the contributions and benefits were so uneven in Europe’s favour that the Europeans became...
  • Apr 9, 2025
    Obscured by the deafening cacophony of incomprehension about a number of the policy innovations of the Trump administration, there are some refreshing signs of progress.
  • Mar 26, 2025
    President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio’s expulsion this week from the United States of the South African ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, is another delightful wringing down...
  • Mar 19, 2025
    From all indications, the proposed fiscal agreement in Germany between the Christian Democrats (CDU-CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens is an inadequate approach to...
  • Mar 5, 2025
    In the aftermath of the rather acrimonious meeting in the White House on Friday between President Zelensky of Ukraine and the president and vice president of the United States, it is...
  • Feb 27, 2025
    This has been an eventful political week for Europe. The German Social Democratic Party (SPD), as expected, the party of Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, and Gerhard Schroeder, has been...
  • Feb 14, 2025
    There have been the predictable negative reactions around Europe about President Trump’s comments on Gaza, and particularly the proposal effectively to remove the current...
  • Jan 29, 2025
    Speaking from the White House, President Trump last week sounded a stirring tocsin of nationalist capitalism to the usual audience in the grim Swiss mountain town of Davos at the...
  • Jan 15, 2025
    Despite the slightly pathetic effort of the departing Biden regime to claim that it is the diligence of the president and his secretary of state that has brought the war in Gaza to...