It was only when Delingpole brought up God and his recent turn to Christianity that Oliver didn’t seem to quite know what to do with himself. Oliver had assumed that he was attending an event for unhinged conspiracy theorists, but it turned out to be much weirder than that: the place was packed with Christians.

Ministers were canny, says journalist Toby Young, but it is the media that is at fault for failing to hold the government to account.

With anti-regime protests in Iran ongoing, hope for the opposition may come from the exiled son of Iran’s last king and his efforts to rally support.

It appears as though no amount of Western well-wishing will speed up any such accession process.

There is much joy around the striking of an agreement, but how long will this last?

Burke failed the test of his era’s truly conservative, and therefore, truly radical, struggle: saving and updating the commons as locus of virtuous sociability and preservation of identity.

The French president explained that Volodymyr Zelensky had been “a great war leader” up to that point, but that he now had to complete his transformation into a true statesman, even at the cost of “difficult decisions.”

Even if the youth would like to see Fidesz go, they still want a conservative Hungary.

N-VA MP Sander Loones notes that rulings on migration and climate in particular are affected, “where sometimes judges rather than politicians determine policy.”

Germany recorded the highest excess mortality rate of 37%, with Romanian MEP Cristian Terhes saying that officials must be open-minded to the causes of the spike.

At least among the young, far more rebellious in today’s climate are those of us who, mixing love of country with an independence of mind, refuse to force everything in our culture through the unforgiving woodchipper of identity politics.