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Delusions of grandeur

July 17, 2017July 17, 2017 Melanie

The Times reports on President Trump’s visit to France as the guest of French President Emanuel Macron: Mr Macron told Le Journal du Dimanche that Mr Trump had been influenced by the way that American city officials and business leaders had continued to support the agreement and that he understood the French argument that climate change contributed to terrorism. Mr Macron believes that extreme weather is worsening the migration crisis and provoking conflict over dwindling resources [my emphasis]. The migration crisis in Europe is being caused by war, tyranny, persecution,…

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Trump in Poland

July 7, 2017July 7, 2017 Melanie

In his magnificent speech in Poland, President Trump asked whether the west “still has the will to survive”. If he’d listened to BBC Radio’s Today programme this morning (approx 0840), he might have lost his own. The issue that seemed to have startled the BBC was the suggestion that there were now threats to western bonds of culture, faith and tradition. (The fact that some of us have been writing about this for years has of course totally passed the BBC by). Two guests were invited to discuss this question:…

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The Irexit no-brainer

July 3, 2017July 3, 2017 Melanie

The Republic of Ireland is intimately intertwined economically, historically, geographically and culturally with the UK. Brexit, which the Irish government never saw coming, therefore has huge implications for Ireland – for the worse as long as Ireland itself remains in the EU. Ireland once got more out of the EU than it paid in. That ratio has now been reversed: it is now a net contributor. Once Britain exits the EU, Ireland will urgently need a free-trade deal with the UK, its main trading partner, as well as the continued…

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Only Brexit can save our values from an abyss

June 13, 2017June 21, 2017 Melanie

Every so often, something is published which slices through the fog of confusion, obfuscation and the sheer dishonesty of public debate to illuminate one key fact about the world. Such a work is Douglas Murray’s tremendous and shattering book, The Strange Death of Europe. His argument is as simple as it is bleak. Europe is dying, doomed by a willed collapse of its culture which has left it unable even to acknowledge, let alone defend itself against, a hostile takeover from beyond its borders. To read Douglas Murray’s remorseless and…

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The tipping point?

May 10, 2017June 29, 2017 Melanie

Before the finale of the French presidential election, I talked with Avi Abelow of Israel Video Network about how French voters were between a rock and a hard place — but how I nevertheless had some optimism about the political convulsions currently occurring in the west, which surely represent a tipping point for the free world.

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The political earthquake continues in France and Britain

April 26, 2017 Melanie

Join me here as I discuss with Avi Abelow of Israel Video Network the rise of Marine le Pen, the British general election and more.

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The phoney and the fascist

April 24, 2017July 2, 2017 Melanie

France now faces a choice between two extremes. Emmanuel Macron, who will confront Marine le Pen in the second round of the French presidential election, is routinely described as a centrist. He is not. He is described as such merely because, in the west, the centre of political gravity has been shifted over the last several decades so that what was once a left-wing position is now regarded as the centre while what was once regarded as the centre is now described as the right. Macron stands for the denial…

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The alt-right smear

March 17, 2017March 17, 2017 Melanie

The neologism “alt-right” has now become part of the political lexicon. It is thought to be merely a term describing a new political movement. This is wrong. It is being used to spread confusion and hatred. The term was invented by a white supremacist called Richard Spencer. It is an obvious piece of manipulative linguistic legerdemain. For there’s nothing remotely “alt” – standing for alternative – about what Spencer does or says, nor other white supremacists or racists or fascists or neo-Nazis who also style themselves as “alt-right”. They are…

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Sloppy words but the substance was true

February 23, 2017February 23, 2017 Melanie

We are told by his detractors that Donald Trump is such a stranger to the truth he thinks he can create his own reality. Well, now he appears to have done just that! One day after seeming to suggest falsely that there had been immigrant-related violence in Sweden the previous night, precisely such violence promptly broke out the following night! Amazing. Not only is President Trump a liar, it appears, but he is a liar with the prophetic gift of second sight. Who knew? What Trump said was this. “You…

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A most deplorable analogy

February 14, 2017February 14, 2017 Melanie

I have one or two strong things to say about an invidious comparison currently being made – not least by those who, of all people, should know better… Transcript follows beneath the video below. In 2015, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel flung open her country’s doors to the great tide of migrants pouring into Europe. They came from war zones such as Syria, from other tyrannies or rogue states. Talk about buyer’s remorse! Mrs Merkel recently told her party, the Christian Democrats: “For the next few months, what matters most is…