Sunak quickly formed his cabinet, a combination of familiar faces, including former cabinet members sacked by Truss or Johnson but restored to office by Sunak.

“The bird is freed,” the new CEO wrote on the platform he had freshly acquired, thereby succinctly revealing both his stance on the company as he found it and his plans for it.

By comparison, the French state spends €953 per month, or €31 per day, on pensioners over the age of 65 who lack the resources to sustain themselves financially.

Little respite is given to Filip Dewinter. For the Flemish nationalist, speaking on taboo subjects—such as the ‘Great Replacement’—means resisting an onslaught of would-be censors.

The court’s ruling is a symbolic victory for the AfD, and it comes one week after the party won a similar case in Hessen, where the state’s administrative court ordered BfV to cease all of its covert investigations into the AfD.

The postponement of the Franco-German Council of Ministers scheduled for Fontainebleau on October 26th is the culmination of a long series of disagreements on key subjects such as energy and defence.

Western leaders pay for these crimes with minor blips in the opinion polls; Europe’s daughters pay with their lives. But those in power have one more trick up their sleeve: to stop us noticing, and to criminalise our speech when we do.