Europe

Yesterday was the 100th year anniversary of the Treaty of Trianon of 1920 that carved up the thousand-year old Kingdom of Hungary. As part of the “peace settlement” after World…

Macedonians are heading to the polls. The official date is not set yet, but it is likely to be on July 5th. The date does not depend on our institutions,…

First published on Comment Central Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once coined the phrase “a diamond is a lump of coal that did well under pressure”. When reading an…

One of the stories that managed to sink to the bottom of the news cycle this weekend was Downing Street hinting that the UK could be open to taking in…

Last week, the ONS figures for April came in. They were, to put an inadequate word to the crisis, terrible. We now have the highest level of unemployment claimants for…

The Western Balkans has never triumphed without strategic clarity from Europe. After the culmination of the Kosovan war, EU leaders and the Western Balkan states met at a summit, in…

“Lord, make me chaste – but not yet,” St Augustine famously said, as he sought to postpone his appointment with Christ’s demanding moral code. Much the same can be said…

We are now into the start of the period where seasonal migrants come into the country in their tens of thousands to help farmers harvest their crops. It is estimated…

The fight against the virus does not require a worldwide government. Experience has taught us that these battles take place on a local level. Governments or local authorities lock down…

In 2019, I was lucky enough to be selected as the Conservative candidate for the East London seat of Leyton and Wanstead. One thing that occurred to me while talking…