New Speaker, Same Old Ideas
The House of Representatives finally got a new Speaker. He starts off boldly, promising big achievements—while dressing his most important idea in worn-out garments.
The House of Representatives finally got a new Speaker. He starts off boldly, promising big achievements—while dressing his most important idea in worn-out garments.
With his speech to the nation, President Biden just foreboded a tectonic shift in the American political landscape.
Former Dutch Deputy PM Wopke Hoekstra will likely take up the other half of the now-split green portfolio.
Starmer claims that “smashing” criminal gangs sneaking people across the Channel should be treated “on a par” with terrorism. However, it’s hard to avoid the suspicion that the violence of his rhetoric is directly proportionate to his lack of sincerity.
The economic degrowth research project sounds like a planned global economy.
U.S. unemployment is rising, but this does not mean a recession is coming. Immigration is causing a recession mirage.
Aiming to turn crisis into opportunity, federalists are hoping to centralise EU powers further, compelling one Polish MEP to warn about the formation of a homogenising state.
This third party promotes ‘Unity’ and promises to solve problems. In reality, they are walking backwards into the future, focusing their political energy on one thing, and one thing only.
Europe’s conservatives want to be fiscally responsible, but they need to become bolder and address the root cause of government deficits and debt.
Parents observed children having increased levels of anxiety and depression, a greater tendency for tantrums, and issues with negative self-esteem, problems that were not present before the lockdowns.
In three simple steps, Europe’s lawmakers can save the continent from stagflation and economic misery.
Backtracking on his earlier statements, Japan’s celebrity academic argued that terms like “mass suicide” and “mass seppuku” were intended as “abstract metaphors.”
When you get less money on long-term investments than on short-term ones, it is good news for the economy.
One thing that was painfully missing was the kind of ‘common good conservatism’ that takes seriously the public nature of the moral law, which may have helped to bring to the conversation about race some lasting solutions.
Croatia’s Prime Minister Andrej Plenković tweeted that through Croatia’s accession to the euro zone, its citizens “will be better protected against crises.”
Sweden has failed to focus fiscal policy on economic growth. Employment is now falling, and there is a debt bomb about to explode in the economy.
With its recent ruling, the GCC enters the second decade of ambiguous jurisprudence over the constitutionality of EU rescue programmes.
Member states have been deeply divided on the best way to handle the energy crisis, and the meeting kept all options on the table, with Germany finally giving in to the possibility of price caps.
There is only one path forward for conservatives: to combine tax cuts with structural reforms to welfare-state spending.
Jeremy Hunt’s proposed tax scheme could easily have been hatched by a Labour government.
A conservative system of benefits protects citizens from destitution, but to succeed, the definition of poverty needs to be overhauled. The Heritage Foundation is moving in this direction, and their ideas could positively impact European welfare policy.
At the EU level, environmental policies are mostly being continued as if there were no Russian invasion of Ukraine or large-scale energy crisis.
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