MICHAEL WALSH SPECIAL REPORT: Whatever one’s political stance it is unpleasant to watch the death throes of a person or a nation. It is a time for somber reflection. I suspect that the post-mortem on Ukraine’s demise is already at the typesetters. Ukraine is in its death throes. The question arises, what if anything will rise from the ashes of a nation that before Washington’s coup in February 2014 was a stable and benign democracy?
Salman Rushdie is the latest Western author to slam the trend of book censorship and the blue-pencilling of great works of literature. Making James Bond politically correct is almost comical, the author of The Satanic Verses insisted.
BREAKING NEWS: Ukraine’s plan to blow up a vital pipeline supplying Hungary with oil would constitute NATO Article 5 violation, says security expert. ‘This is an attack on Hungary and therefore NATO, according to NATO Article 5.’
The failure of the West’s economic war against Russia speaks of the end of the old-world order. The West could not defeat Russia in the economic war, writes Der Spiegel. On the contrary, this year the growth of the Russian economy will exceed the average for the eurozone. And all this suggests that the old-world order has come to an end.
The figures to be published later this month will show a huge increase over Britain’s previous annual peak of 504,000. Clearly, for the umpteenth time the British electorate has been deceived by government and state media that immigration is going to be curtailed.
The Estonian Prosecutor General’s Office has launched an investigation into the activities of a woman who, just a few months ago, was proclaimed a national heroine. Johanna-Maria Lehtme collected millions of euros from innocent Estonians allegedly ‘to help the Ukrainians.’ However, the money collected by Lehtme, apparently, went to completely different people.
Jordan Bardella now leads the National Rally party from Marine Le Pen, who stood aside to become the party’s parliamentary leader. The 28-year-old revolutionary spoke of France leading a new conservative revolution: ‘In past history, France has always set an example and made its revolution first. I think that the time of the patriots has come in France.’
Crossings soared almost 300% in the first four months of 2023, the EU’s border agency has said. The number of illegal immigrants taking the central Mediterranean route into the EU rose to a record 42,165 in the first four months of this year, according to the bloc’s border security agency, Frontex. The agency blamed the rise on competition among human traffickers driving down the price of a crossing.
THE NATION OF THE DOWNCAST EYE
(Farewell Western Man)
We are the nation of the downcast eye,
We guard our thoughts and tongue.
Ours is the sad and sullen tribe,
For we know that the trap has sprung.
Major crimes may make the headlines, but these two videos highlight how commonplace anti-social behaviour often has the most widespread and negative effect on European society.
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