Mick Hume’s Democracy Watch column tracks the battles between the EU elites and the peoples of Europe.
Europe’s leaders should stop telling the Israelis to “step back” and instead step up to support them.
This is about more than words. The ‘far right’ slander is being used by the authorities to justify far-reaching attacks on democracy.
We will all pay a heavy price if Europe’s leaders are allowed to take the wrong side in what is a fight to the end between the forces of civilisation and barbarism.
In the face of attempts to censor conservatives in Brussels, we need to stand unequivocally for free speech for all.
It no longer seems crazy to suggest that Europe’s elites might be prepared to ‘save democracy’—from the people—by destroying it.
It is time for us to take back the idea of patriotism from the elites, and to free national consciousness from all the negative labels they have attached to it.
The case of Marine Le Pen is one of many where the courts are used as a political weapon against the rising populist revolt.
They are playing war games but don’t truly believe that Europe’s values are worth fighting for.
The trouble is, however, that too many Western leaders do not believe in the nations they rule over.
It was not Elon Musk but mass migration and Net Zero madness that prompted millions of Germans to vote AfD.
We are two Wests. The divide is not America versus Europe, it is the people versus the elites.
Europe’s sovereign nations need to get their own defences in order.