Tim Farron came out in suppport of the US airstrikes inn Syria. Yet when Boris, the UK foreign secretary lest we forget, backed this up by walking away from talks with Lavrov, Farron said that Boris had made a mistake; even been played for a fool. I don’t understand this position at all. Look, as […]
The Left’s need to side with Assad sees it reach new lows
This isn’t about whether you support America’s airstrikes on Syria or not. I personally find the need to protest every time America does something militarily, yet turn a total blind eye to when Russia does the same hypocritical and morally questionable at the very least. But I do not wish to get hung up on […]
The Dutch elections do not mean we’re out of the wilderness yet. France could be very different
In the wake of Geert Wilders relatively disappointing election showing this week, many pundits are quick to declare the populist wave over in Europe. They have extrapolated from the Dutch result that France will not become the domain of Marine Le Pen after the first week in May. I would advise a lot more caution […]
How the Milo Yiannopoulis paedophile scandal demonstrates how lost modern conservatism really is
Perhaps some of you don’t follow the goings on of the American alt right as closely as I do, so allow me to explain the initial premise of this article: Milo Yiannopoulos, the (former?) darling of the movement known as the alt right, has got himself into a fair amount of hot water over comments […]
What’s important to take away from the Trump “chaos” press conference
What’s going to be so exhausting about the Trump presidency will be the sheer pace of it. My wife asked me yesterday late afternoon if I’d seen the Trump press conference madness. I thought she meant the crazy Netanyahu one, where Trump may or may not have shut the book on twenty years of diplomacy regarding […]
Brexit and Trump are becoming synonymous for a lot of people. That’s really bad news for Labour
The other day Nadhim Zahawi, the Iraq-born Tory MP for Stratford-Upon-Avon, tweeted about his sadness surrounding the Trump Ban and how it would (we assumed at the time) personally affect him. I retweeted Nadhim and was surprised at how many people came back with something along the lines of “That’s what you get for supporting Brexit”, directed […]
May’s trip to America demonstrates the one-sided nature of the “special relationship”
I’ll preface this piece by saying that I believe that, even if we weren’t leaving the EU, maintaining the strongest relationship available with America is vital. I also believe that for all the innumerable faults that US foreign policy has had over the years, having an America that is engaged in the world as opposed […]
Donald Trump and the radical leftist side of the new president
The Left, across the whole world, hates Donald Trump. I’m really, really not a fan of the man myself, but it interests me to figure out how the reasons I don’t like him and think he’ll be a terrible president differ from those held by leftists. I think what I have in common with the […]
May’s visit to America reminds us of the pathetic sycophancy Britain always demonstrates towards the US
Before we go any further, I am not someone who bemoans America’s role in world affairs. In fact, one of the things I fear about Trump’s presidency is what it will do to the global order in terms of the US retreating from the role it has played since the end of the Second World […]
The meeting of the far-right in Koblenz deserved much more attention than it received
Amidst Trump’s inauguration, it may have escaped some of your attentions that there was a meeting of far-right European leaders, hosted by Alternative fur Deutschland in the Rhineland city of Korblenz. Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen, the whole far-right gang were there at a conference, open to all the public. They gave speeches and posed […]