“It’s not particularly about COVID, but about recognizing the patterns we are creating. I think that is the main topic in the film: people need to start seeing the patterns and recognize how they are being copied with every new global threat.”—Marijn Poels

Progressives declared war on Trump on live TV. Trump was watching. Regardless of his ideological promiscuity, the die was cast: abortion activists were his enemies. They paid dearly for the mistake.

Truss was ridiculed for wearing furs in Moscow during a thaw. It’s an apt metaphor for her—no matter the weather, she’ll wear furs to Moscow because Thatcher did, and no matter the economic forecast, she’ll cut taxes because Thatcher did.

After 10 days of being shut down due to scheduled maintenance, gas deliveries from Russia to Germany have resumed via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, albeit only at 30% capacity. While operators claim full capacity will be reached at some point, German politicians are far from relieved.

Poland’s importation of coal from overseas reserves is an economic and environmental debacle, one that only makes sense in light of the EU’s environmental policies, which smothered coal mining for ‘green’ reasons.

The aspersions are not likely to end the matter, as six anti-homophobia associations have announced that they have filed a complaint against Caroline Cayeux, who—for the moment—remains in office.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence, supportive of Kyiv, said that it believed Russian forces weren’t advancing swiftly because of personnel shortages.

A vote of confidence is being held in both houses of parliament on Wednesday and Thursday. Draghi called on senators from his coalition to show responsibility in order to “rebuild” a “pact of confidence.”