Month: December 2025

How a Wounded Tusk Is Rehabilitating Communism

The language has changed, the uniforms have changed, but the underlying assumption—that sovereignty is a problem to be managed, not a right to be exercised—remains the same.

Carols, Lights, and Concrete Blocks: Europe’s New Christmas Reality

Carols, Lights, and Concrete Blocks: Europe’s New Christmas Reality

Masked rioters, concrete barriers, and armed patrols signal a new reality for Europe’s holiday markets this season.

December 1, 2025
Merz “Stabs Attacked Police Officers in the Back” As He Fails To Condemn Weekend Leftist Violence 

Merz “Stabs Attacked Police Officers in the Back” As He Fails To Condemn Weekend Leftist Violence 

The chancellor proved incapable of joining other officials who bashed the left for undermining democracy.

December 1, 2025
Ukraine demands another €1 billion from Europeans to fuel its war machine

Ukraine demands another €1 billion from Europeans to fuel its war machine

Kyiv is seeking fresh European funding to continue financing American arms purchases through the PURL programme, which relies mainly on European money.

December 1, 2025
‘Trans Mary’ Depiction Sparks Outrage at Vienna Exhibition

‘Trans Mary’ Depiction Sparks Outrage at Vienna Exhibition

The Künstlerhaus show has prompted protests and political debate, provoked by content including a wolf in priest’s clothes.

December 1, 2025
Arms Firms Report Record Revenues as Europe Ramps Up War Warnings

Arms Firms Report Record Revenues as Europe Ramps Up War Warnings

New data shows defence giants surging to historic profits while EU governments revive conscription plans and push public ‘preparedness’ campaigns.

December 1, 2025
Zagreb Nun Stabbed in Attack Which May Have Been Religiously Motivated

Zagreb Nun Stabbed in Attack Which May Have Been Religiously Motivated

Sister Marija Tatjana Zrno is now being treated in hospital, and is expected to recover.

December 1, 2025
Trump Extends Indefinite Pause on Asylum Decisions

Trump Extends Indefinite Pause on Asylum Decisions

Following the fatal shooting of a National Guard soldier in Washington D.C., the administration has extended the policy of travel restrictions to 19 ‘third world’ countries.

December 1, 2025
Obituary: A Momentous Englishman

Obituary: A Momentous Englishman

Peter Whittle understood that the English love of respectability had been weaponised against us to make a virtue of cowardice.

December 1, 2025
Speaking Skin: Reflections on Alexandre Lacassagne and Tattoos

Speaking Skin: Reflections on Alexandre Lacassagne and Tattoos

Alexandre Lacassagne, the French forensic pathologist who published a book on tattoos in 1881, would have been astonished at, and puzzled by, the explosion of elaborate and professional tattoos in the general population in the last three decades.

December 1, 2025
“NGOs act on behalf and in the interests of the Commission”—MEP <strong>Csaba Dömötör</strong>

“NGOs act on behalf and in the interests of the Commission”—MEP <strong>Csaba Dömötör</strong>

“What we have here is a vast political machinery that is quite the opposite of the definition of civil society. It does not represent certain groups of society, but a closed institutional elite in Brussels.”

December 1, 2025
Zelensky in Paris for Peace Talks

Zelensky in Paris for Peace Talks

As Washington revises its Ukraine peace blueprint and prepares for high-stakes talks in Moscow, European officials say the next few days could prove decisive.

December 1, 2025
Big Europe Has Lost the War Over Ukraine

Big Europe Has Lost the War Over Ukraine

The EU’s claim to be a global power player stands exposed as the fantasies of an ageing pretender.

December 1, 2025