Despite his colourful pessimism, Žižek still appears to indulge the fallacy that some combination of good will, rationality, and imagination is up to the task of saving our fallen world.

For many months, the re-election of Emmanuel Macron has been taken for granted. But the French hate it when a scenario is imposed on them in advance.

On April 7th, the EU Parliament voted to place an embargo on Russian oil, gas, and nuclear fuel, which was closely followed by a EU Commission ban on its coal exports. Meanwhile, the UN General Assembly suspended the country from its Human Rights Council.

Both Zemmour and Le Pen have tweeted about the possibility that this could be an anti-Semitic second or third-degree murder and that its late arrival on the news cycle could be premeditated.

As the Muslim Brotherhood is commonly regarded by Belgium’s security services as “the parent organization of all contemporary Sunni extremist movements and of various terrorist movements,” the highly critical report made some furrow their brows.

The attack comes a month after Germany’s Federal Interior Ministry released figures which revealed that, for the third consecutive year, members and politicians from the AfD were victimized by political violence more frequently than those of any other party represented in the Bundestag.

European inflation is now at U.S. levels and all euro-zone member states except Malta now have annual inflation rates above 5%.

There are likely to be more fines issued against government personnel in the coming weeks, as well as increased public demand to see them imposed on figures higher up on the food-chain rather than on low-level staff.

“I have always been firmly convinced that this attack could have been prevented. Today, concrete elements confirm this conviction. Mistakes were made both on the side of the National Education and the Ministry of the Interior, without which Samuel Paty could have been saved,” the family’s lawyer said.