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Dec 2, 2025
It’s a worrying sign – perhaps one of irreversible senile decay – when one finds oneself admiring not merely a senior politician, but one who is chancellor of...
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Nov 14, 2025
To any war correspondent in the field, there is no greater source of evil than his or her news desk at home. The intrepid gallants that occupy that heroic table will fearlessly send...
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Oct 28, 2025
History moves in cycles, sometimes brief ones. The following headline (bold-type in the original) which appeared in last Saturday’s The Irish Times is a marker of one...
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Sep 23, 2025
The belief that government, of itself, can make life better is the great heresy that now threatens the very future of France.
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Aug 5, 2025
When, as they have done, the Visegrad Four talk about events in central Europe, wise folk listen.
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Jun 24, 2025
When and if President Trump addresses the NATO conference that begins in The Hague today, I trust that he’ll announce the withdrawal of the US from the alliance.
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Apr 29, 2025
Is the Islamist massacre of Indian tourists in Kashmir a prelude to major hostilities between Pakistan and India? India has suspended the treaty governing the Indus water network,...
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Mar 31, 2025
Liberals and judges everywhere will be rejoicing at the elimination of Marine Le Pen from the presidential race for the Élysée, the former because they will happily...
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Feb 11, 2025
The war has begun. Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has nailed his theses to the door. They are simple. The bureaucrats of Brussels have destroyed Europe. Because of Brussels, the...
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Jan 7, 2025
This year sees the ninetieth anniversary of the publication of a book called The Strange Death of Liberal England by the Anglo-American historian George Dangerfield.