Endless self-denunciation might quench a progressive longing, but it does nothing to make the public safer.

If someone is on the ‘good side,’ threatening rhetoric can be tolerated, political blackmail can be explained, and pressure can be relativized.

The party that was once—for better or worse—seen as a vehicle for popular representation has become an obstacle to democratic change.

The MP was found “criminally liable” for a 22-year-old pamphlet stating the biblical views on homosexuality.

Truth cannot survive in a system where its value is subordinated to political expediency.

Leaking the precise location of a high-security private event to a press corps with an appetite for the darkest possible framing, in a city where networks were actively building nail bombs, was reckless.

The French Ministry of Education intends to impose “media education” on pupils—another way to guarantee its ideological domination.

Brussels, Kyiv, and those member states whose intelligence communities are spreading disinformation are all determined to change Budapest’s position on Ukraine by helping the opposition come to power.

When political outcomes are shaped by external expectations, the decisions that follow rarely prioritize the national interest.

Sir Keir is not a Bond villain stroking a white cat in a volcano lair. He is something far more dangerous in a democracy: a careerist without fixed principles.

At the foot of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the necropolis of the kings of France since Merovingian times, the descendants of the subjects of Their Majesties the Most Christian Kings are becoming increasingly rare.

The last thing Berlin needs is a day against Islamophobia—what it does need is better politicians.