The Dutch farmer revolt is focusing attention on the prime minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte. Why is he pursuing this draconian agenda to radically restructure Dutch agriculture?

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In the Netherlands, we're faced with a contrived "environmental crisis" that exists solely in the minds of our technocrats. Once again we are being ordered to "follow the science" with no space for honest debate.

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Is there a place for the English language in the emerging multipolar world? Or should it be discarded as a colonial artifact? Not up to us to say of course, we in the anglophone world can only look on as the rest of the world decides. My latest on Substack: Boot the bankers, keep the language

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Every generation interprets the classics in ways that reflect current sensibilities. That doesn't doesn't give us license to "fix" their ideological shortcomings. A recent production in Amsterdam of Götterdämmerung is a case in point: Rectifying Wagner

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The contemporary Left demonizes any form of nationalism, embracing instead a idealistic vision of a borderless utopia. Fortunately down-to-earth politicians like the German socialist Sahra Wagenknech have more sensible ideas: Sahra Wagenknecht's Left populism

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So how's the EU Energy Transition going? Now up on Substack:  A short commentary on our current predicament. Owing to poor planning and ideological obsessions, Europe is forced to increase burning coal for energy production. Our Green politicians have a lot to answer for: Greens turn to coal

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