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On 10 May, US historian Jeffrey Herf spoke at a small café in Berlin established to discuss antisemitism and the Western Left’s growing hostility to the state of Israel.
New SNP leadership and an unpopular Labour Party may yet force Scottish independence back onto the political agenda.
Forecasts that Nigel Farage will become UK prime minister now attract expressions of anxious concern not mockery from the liberal commentariat.
A French criminal court ruling forbidding Marine Le Pen from contesting the 2027 presidential election could throw the country into turmoil.
When dealing with the Chinese Communist Party, why does the West find it so difficult to learn the exhausting lessons of bitter experience?
The new European commitment to defence and Russia’s unshakeable wish to control Ukraine have revived an awareness that war is something with which comfortable and relatively wealthy states may still have to live.
Israel’s experience in Gaza provides a sobering preview of what high-intensity urban warfare can entail, and how modern militaries must evolve to achieve decisive and ethical victories in any future conflict.
The strong will do what they can and the weak will suffer what they must.
The debate about Rickard Andersson’s killing spree has been informed by an unhealthy discourse about race and immigration in Sweden.
After three punishing years of war, the Trump administration is preparing to reduce a ravaged country to the status of US protectorate.
In Central and Eastern Europe, the more extreme wing of the continent’s radical Right is gaining ground.
European leaders are struggling to cope with the multiple crises now facing the beleaguered continent.
Some leaders in Europe may resist a new alliance with Trump’s America, but in a world dominated by bullies, sharp elbows and unpredictability may be what the times demand.
The future is unwritten, and a future of space cooperation and peaceful settlement remains possible.
The president-elect’s arrival in the White House will likely galvanise the European New Right and doom the Ukrainian resistance.