Two Senior Resignations Threaten to Crash Johnson’s Premiership
Yet again, Prime Minister Boris Johnson finds himself in trouble. After a fresh scandal—involving predatory sexual misbehaviour and a Tory MP recently promoted to the
Yet again, Prime Minister Boris Johnson finds himself in trouble. After a fresh scandal—involving predatory sexual misbehaviour and a Tory MP recently promoted to the
Monday’s protest, during which a policeman fired two shots at a tractor, marks the latest escalation in an ongoing contest of wills.
Margarita de la Pisa Carrión noted that the request to remove pro-life lobbyists was based on the assumption that abortion is a fundamental human right, though it has never been enshrined as such in European law.
June, then, is a time of taking stock of the wonderful inheritance that those who stand for the Good, the True, and the Beautiful have been given.
Three rampages by mentally ill people over the course of 48 hours shocked Germany last month, but the lax treatment of even the clinically psychotic may be symptomatic of a deeper societal crisis.
The EU wants to reduce its dependence on imported semiconductors and has announced a new major spending programme: the so-called “Chips Act.”
Some political opponents of the Polish prime minister did not see this granting of EU funds as good news; indeed, they consider that it places the country in a dangerous dependency.
A Russian comedy duo continues to dupe Western politicians and celebrities with prank calls in which they pretend to be either Vitaly Klychko or Volodymyr Zelensky. This raises questions about the quality of security at some of the EU’s highest offices.
Strong U.S.-Moroccan relations make it difficult for Spain to gain clear assurances from NATO concerning the security of its north African territories. Insofar as these continue to be treated as a bargaining chip, subject to Morocco’s discretion, Spanish political elites are likely to offer concessions in other areas.
In 2018, in the Balearic Islands alone, 7 tourists died and 24 were seriously injured either from falls or auto-related accidents. In most cases, the victims were inebriated and left alone by their friends.
President Saied is drawing the outlines of the beginning of secularism in Tunisia, unusual in Islamic lands where temporal power and spiritual power tend to merge.
Despite resistance from Germany, the ministers aligned with the EU Parliament’s recent resolution to ban the sale of combustion engines in the block in 2035.
With German gas reserves at a precariously low level for winter, Germany has decided to continue shunning nuclear energy, and has opted to reactivate coal plants.
While some—the comedian in question included—might want to brush it off as a humorous episode, how it reflects the current state of free speech in the UK is decidedly not funny.
Johnson lifted talking points from the wokesters’ playbook, calling Putin’s invasion of Ukraine “a perfect example of toxic masculinity” and urging the world to install “more women in positions of power.”
Tradition and conservatism are not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
Huge concessions from Sweden and Finland finally allowed Turkey to lift its veto against the entry of the two Nordic countries in the Atlantic Alliance.
After the war in Ukraine started, G7 leaders have been fixated on getting oil and gas from anywhere but Russia. This might prove more trying than expected.
The result of the vote on 23 June 2022 confirms the prevailing consensus among MEPs on the need to maintain control over public freedoms in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than 23,000 women and girls living across multicultural Belgium have been subjected to the profoundly barbaric practice known as female genital mutilation (FGM); another 12,000 are at risk.
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