It was not compromise but the avoidance—even suppression—of critical debate that lay at the heart of the technocratic governing style for which Merkel and her successors stand.

Pedro Sánchez is summoning the long-silent ghosts of the past in an attempt to publicly humiliate the victors of the civil war. In so doing, he has likely opened Pandora’s box—even if he has not yet realised it.

The plain old class prejudice levelled at these girls by the Left was hateful and all too predictable.

Europe still inhabits the house that Christianity built. The question is whether it still understands the foundations.

The government is preparing to protect Corsican traditions and identity. But what about French identity?

As demographic shifts accelerate and anti-Christian hostility mounts from both radical Islam and the secular left, the faith that is Europe’s soul faces an uncertain and darkening future.

A series of high-profile attacks has intensified debate over asylum and border controls, yet Ireland’s governing and media elites remain reluctant to confront the issue directly.

The litany of gross injustices keeps growing, but the elites care more about how we talk about it—or don’t.

The problem is not European society discriminating against culturally irreconcilable people but pandering to them, even spending taxpayer cash on training public health officials how to treat foreign lunatics who think they have goblins living in their necks.

The government’s insistence that this referendum is “just about talks” echoes criticisms of how EU integration has proceeded elsewhere: incremental steps that are difficult to reverse.

The Elgin Marbles debate is about far more than the marbles themselves. It is about the ludicrous concept that art and culture should be tribalised.

Selective memory does not bring peoples together but fuels the very resentments it claims to soothe.