Monday’s paper
April 7, 2025
The club of thieves and liars
It is unprecedented. Never before have we seen thieves, real thieves convicted of organized theft, call for a protest demonstration against the judgment that condemned them. We see thugs parading after their release from prison. We also see them celebrating the failure of the justice system to prove their guilt, but this Sunday meeting of the National Rally, no, that…
It is unprecedented. Never before have we seen thieves, real thieves convicted of organized theft, call for a protest demonstration against the judgment that condemned them. We see thugs parading after their release from prison. We also see them celebrating the failure of the justice system to prove their guilt, but this Sunday meeting of the National Rally, no, that was a real first.
Monday’s paper
March 24, 2025
In spite of Trump and Putin: The reasons for hope
Sit down and cry? Cry with rage and fear at the speed with which Donald Trump and his men are attacking the American checks and balances and muzzling Republican elected officials by threatening to oppose candidates of their own in the next primaries?
Sit down and cry? Cry with rage and fear at the speed with which Donald Trump and his men are attacking the American checks and balances and muzzling Republican elected officials by threatening to oppose candidates of their own in the next primaries?
Monday’s paper
March 17, 2025
The birth of a new West
There will be no business as usual, no return to the status quo ante, no resurrection of the post-war order. Even if we assume – which remains to be proven – that a normal president, Democrat or Republican, succeeds Donald Trump and closes what would have been nothing more than an astonishing parenthesis, we will not return to a single…
There will be no business as usual, no return to the status quo ante, no resurrection of the post-war order. Even if we assume – which remains to be proven – that a normal president, Democrat or Republican, succeeds Donald Trump and closes what would have been nothing more than an astonishing parenthesis, we will not return to a single and same Western world dominated by the United States.
Monday’s paper
March 10, 2025
Five failures, not a single success
Donald Trump never stops singing his own praises. He probably really does believe he is truly brilliant, but apart from having caused global chaos in just seven weeks, what has he actually achieved?
Donald Trump never stops singing his own praises. He probably really does believe he is truly brilliant, but apart from having caused global chaos in just seven weeks, what has he actually achieved?
Monday’s paper
February 4, 2025
Donald Putin and Vladimir Trump
America is a democracy. That is why Donald Trump is not Vladimir Putin, because unlike the Russian president, he will eventually come up against checks and balances in the judiciary, Congress, the press, the governors and the Federal Reserve.
America is a democracy. That is why Donald Trump is not Vladimir Putin, because unlike the Russian president, he will eventually come up against checks and balances in the judiciary, Congress, the press, the governors and the Federal Reserve.
Monday’s paper
November 20, 2024
The Union is more likely to get stronger than to fall apart
Will we be up to the challenge? It is far from impossible. It is even far from unlikely, but those who say in such large numbers that we will not be able to cope with Donald Trump and that Europe will soon crumble under his blows are unfortunately not short of arguments.
Will we be up to the challenge? It is far from impossible. It is even far from unlikely, but those who say in such large numbers that we will not be able to cope with Donald Trump and that Europe will soon crumble under his blows are unfortunately not short of arguments.
Monday’s paper
November 11, 2024
America’s lost “golden age”
The reasons for this are not specifically American, as there are many other Trumps around the world. Nor does it have anything to do with Joe Biden's belated withdrawal, since Donald Trump had already won over half the American people months earlier.
The reasons for this are not specifically American, as there are many other Trumps around the world. Nor does it have anything to do with Joe Biden’s belated withdrawal, since Donald Trump had already won over half the American people months earlier.
Monday’s paper
October 28, 2024
Putin-Europe: 2-0
There are worse things than Russian interference. If the ‘yes’ to the European Union only won by such a narrow margin in Moldova, it was not just because huge numbers of votes were bought by Mr Putin's services, and because they flooded the electorate with false news at the same time. In both Georgia and Moldova, this interference was highly…
There are worse things than Russian interference. If the ‘yes’ to the European Union only won by such a narrow margin in Moldova, it was not just because huge numbers of votes were bought by Mr Putin’s services, and because they flooded the electorate with false news at the same time. In both Georgia and Moldova, this interference was highly effective, but it does not explain everything.
Monday’s paper
October 15, 2024
Europe after the 5th of November
In the first scenario, everything is tragically clear. If Donald Trump is elected on 5 November, he will not wait even until he takes office to seal with Vladimir Putin a division of Ukraine, based on the model of the two Germanies or the two Koreas.
In the first scenario, everything is tragically clear. If Donald Trump is elected on 5 November, he will not wait even until he takes office to seal with Vladimir Putin a division of Ukraine, based on the model of the two Germanies or the two Koreas.
