German Chancellor Angela Merkel is under considerable political pressure to fix Germany and Europe’s immigration problem within the next two weeks. Otherwise, Bavaria will start turning migrants back at the border and thus render a pan-European solution impossible. Today, she met French President Emmanuel Macron for talks and the…
Read MoreAs we forecast, the new policy on illegal immigration last week has unleashed considerable emotion, particularly among Trump’s opponents and immigration supporters and activists. Media coverage also continues to be egregiously bad. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer had a panel that very evening which, yet again, played the “short version” of last…
Read MoreBabies, Parents and The Press in the latest US immigration scandal Yet another “scandal” hit the headlines this week, one which provides yet another classic example of what the White House, often rightly, calls “fake news.” US attorney general Jeff Sessions justified a change in policy which separates children from…
Read MoreOnce again, a discussion on immigration is taking place in Europe. For the last few days, the new “populist” government in Italy has refused a berth to a ship called the Aquarius, which is carrying some 630 immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Today, Valencia in Spain has said it would accept…
Read MoreIn recent weeks, a discussion has been underway at the Australian National University (ANU) about a large donation to set up a course in Western Civilisation. A number of academics are against this, with the usual set of spurious arguments. It would unbalance the university by giving too much to…
Read MoreAfter our warning last week that Europe needs the U.S. on defence and security more than vice versa, it was encouraging to see a rare article which recognises that truth. Even so, Bruno Tertrais, deputy director of French think tank the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, fails to get it…
Read MoreThe British newspaper The Guardian today reported that the British counter-extremism group Quilliam had just published a line-by-line rebuttal of Fiqh al-Dima (The Jurisprudence of Blood), the key Salafi-jihadist text used by ISIS to justify its ideology and actions. The Guardian quoted the Quilliam report’s claim that There is a…
Read MoreIn his just published book, Ronan Farrow writes: When the call was over, Clancy hung up and turned to her partner, dumbfounded. “We’re all being fired.” Like a lot of young diplomats, Erin Clancy had joined the [U.S.] Foreign Service after 9/11. She wanted to make the world safer. She…
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