News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Our 'post-human' leaders like Macron, Houellebecq implies, have so successfully destroyed Western civilisation that its people, profoundly depressed by what has occurred, have basically given up living, says Steven Tucker.
With France thrown into chaos by a rash election won by the far Left and violence erupting on the streets, Steven Tucker turns to Michel Houellebecq for insights into what is going on at a deeper level.
Hard left activists and their Islamist allies rioted in France's major cities last night following the surprise victory of the New Popular Front – a coalition of far Left activists and Islamists – in yesterday's election.
Le Pen scored a huge victory in the first round of France's elections, but her opponents are hoping to keep out her party by teaming up with antisemites, Islamists, antifa and terror apologists, says Robert Kogon.
Marine Le Pen's Right-wing National Rally party has taken a commanding lead in the first round of France's parliamentary elections, bringing it closer to the gates of power than ever before.
France is teetering on the brink of its own 'Frexit' moment, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has warned.
The Belgian Prime Minister resigns, Emanuel Macron dissolves the National Assembly in France and Germany inches further towards political crisis – Eugyppius gives his take on the EU parliamentary election results.
Olaf Scholz is coming under pressure to follow Emannuel Macron's example and call a snap election after his party suffered a humiliating defeat in EU elections.
Emmanuel Macron has urged France not to "give in to the spirit of the times" and reject gender-inclusive writing in order to safeguard the French language as a ban on non-traditional usage comes before the Senate.
Boris Johnson argues that we should give Ukraine longer-range artillery, tanks and perhaps even planes. This is a coherent position. By contrast, the position of Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz makes no sense at all.
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