European Politics
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
Military history is set to repeat itself
In a recession-ridden Britain, another European war seemed unthinkable
The Catalan gridlock
Catalans are losing their identity as well as their hopes for sovereignty
A radical right-wing trio
A new generation of radicals in France see their political mission as nothing less than saving European civilisation
Whose rule of law?
The European Union refuses to call out democratic backsliding when orchestrated by the left
Stuck in a Rutte
An assessment of Dutch politics under Prime Minister Mark Rutte
The strange death of Spain
A power-hungry socialist Prime Minister has struck a deal with separatists
What the Polish election means
It has major implications for conservatism and left-liberalism in Europe
How the Danes paid the Danegeld
We should resist the new blasphemy laws
The strange death of liberal Germanophilia
Do the Germans “do it better”?
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
The paper tiger and the Russian bear
NATO’s naive and supine response will not drive Putin’s army from Ukraine and emboldens Moscow still further
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
Devolution has been a disaster
SNP incompetence is a feature of the system and not a bug
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
Disposable women?
Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
