Davos: the sound of one hand clapping
- January 26, 2016
- by
- Matt
For those who like to follow the example of Brian and his disciples and always look on the bright side of life, it can safely be said that 2016 hasn’t gotten off to the most cracking start. The year began with the mass sexual assaults at Cologne, which have now become a cause celebre for anti-immigrationists, racists and Islamophobes across the continent, who have painted Europe’s refugees as a collective rape gang.
While Europe increasingly seethes with fear and hatred, the European Union is poised to undo one of its most cherished achievements,...
The Knights of Cologne
- January 14, 2016
- by
- Matt
As a sixty-year-old man I obviously can’t speak with a great deal of authority on what it’s like to be a young woman in Europe. Nevertheless I am the parent of a twenty-year-old daughter who likes to go out at night. Recently she was at a club when a stranger propositioned...
Fortress Europe Book Launch
- November 07, 2015
- by
- Matt
Next week sees the publication of the UK paperback edition of Fortress Europe: Inside the War Against Immigration, and I’ve got a couple of events coming up in London to mark the occasion. On Wednesday evening, I’ll be participating in a round table discussion at the Institute of Race Relations with the author...
Europe Hearts Erdogan
- October 19, 2015
- by
- Matt
It’s little more than a week since the worst terrorist attack in Turkish history – a vicious atrocity in which the government was at best neglectful and at worst actively complicit, in which more than 100 peaceful demonstrators were murdered because they called for an end to the ongoing war between the Turkish government and...
Catalonia Dreaming
- September 30, 2015
- by
- Matt
Last Friday morning I was on the top of Mount Canigou, ‘the sacred mountain of Catalonia’, with my staunchly independentista friend from Barcelona, Andreu. Andreu had brought a Catalan flag with him to mark the occasion, and he wasn’t the only one. A seventy-five-year-old Barcelones named Joan had climbed the...
Europe’s Border Insurgency
- September 03, 2015
- by
- Matt
David Cameron has never looked shiftier or more downright disreputable than he did yesterday, when he attempted to defend the UK’s iniquitous and morally indefensible response to the most serious refugee crisis since the aftermath of World War II. Faced with calls from Germany to accept a quota of refugees, he offered the following...
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