Commenting in The European Conservative, Dorina Molnar wonders if recent threats of trade sanctions against Israel by European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen will do more damage to the European Goliath than the Israeli David. Israel, Molnar notes, quietly supplies European countries with essential weapons systems – particularly state-of-the-art and battle-tested air-defence systems. Not only Europe but embattled Ukraine, Molnar notes, will suffer if the EC insists on putting ideology ahead of practicality.

Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.


