David Engels

The End of an Era: Time's Up for Orbán

Fear eats the Right

Between a drumroll and “business as usual”: the EU has voted

The End of the Pandemic - and the Death Knell for our Democracy

Even if many people still don't want to admit it: the covid crisis is over. All over Europe, the various measures that have been in place for the past two years are being scaled back or completely abolished, so that many countries, such as Great Britain and Denmark, have returned to a completely normal situation.

How I learned to love the pandemic

Due to the corona pandemic the line between right and wrong has become more apparent and the different sides in the political debate more obvious. Who is going along with the narrative and who is standing up for freedom?

Bravest among the Braves: The Poles defend Europe against the European Union

The Polish Constitutional Court has ruled that they have legal precedence over the European Court of Justice. This is the latest move in a series of conflicts between the member state Poland and the western counterparts. At the basis of this conflict lies a difference in ideology between fundamental social institutions such as the classical family, personal propriety, national identity or Western civilisation and radical leftist ideas such as multiculturalism, gender mainstreaming, LGBTQ-ideology, globalism, debt-culture and Western guilt.

What is to be done?

Many conservatives in the West still indulge in the mistaken idea that the fundamental transformation of our civilisation, which is only just beginning, can still be halted or even reverted by traditional political instruments. It would suffice for Parliament and government, they claim, to return to moderately conservative opinions for some years to put everything alright again.

How the Pentagon created Wuhan

The sensational revelation that the US military gave tens of millions of dollars to fund the ‘gain of function’ research into coronaviruses at the Wuhan Laboratory of Virology in China has gone up like a lead balloon. So far at least, it is a news story which has ‘no legs’.