Tag: Europe

Listening to the US Vice President's speech in Munich, Prof James Allan says he found himself muttering "my kingdom for a J.D. Vance" – because he can't see one in the rest of the conservative anglosphere right now.

"There is no security if you are afraid of the voices, the opinions and the conscience that guide your very own people. If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you." — JD Vance

US Vice President J.D. Vance has slammed European leaders for "criminalising" free speech, opening the immigration floodgates and brutally clamping down on dissent in his landmark address to the Munich Security Conference.

There's an earthquake underway in climate politics, says Ben Pile. Several major U.S. banks, including Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, have fled the Net Zero Banking Alliance. The implications are immense.

Rather than facing the facts, Ed Miliband has this week tripled-down on what everyone else can now see are terrible mistakes in energy policy more than two decades in the making, says Ben Pile.

David Starkey is right that Tony Blair and New Labour destroyed the British Constitution and did lasting harm to the country, says Prof James Alexander. But here are some things he gets wrong.

Northvolt's ambitious battery dream has gone bust, says Sallust, and with it, Europe's hopes of competing with China in the EV market.

Ford is to cut 800 jobs in Britain and 4,000 roles across Europe over the next three years as part of a plan to cut production of electric cars as sales stall and competition from China steps up.

Vauxhall owner Stellantis's sales have plunged by more than a quarter amid an EV slowdown in Europe. It follows Volkswagen proposing huge workforce cuts and the closure of German factories.

Today is the 1,500th anniversary of the death of the Roman writer Boethius, whose great work The Consolation of Philosophy illustrates what we mean when we say we are part of one Western civilisation, says Nicholas Tate.