With long-time open border advocate Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk having recently declared his plan to suspend the right to asylum for anyone arriving from Belarus, Tim Black considers the internal pressures mounting within the EU to maintain a common border policy. “The Brussels regime is struggling to hold itself together,” he writes in Spiked.
Where the Courts Just Aren’t Cricket
Judicial reforms in Britian will soon allow pre-sentencing reports for cases involving “an ethnic minority, cultural minority, and/or faith minority” offender. With these reports meant to argue for a reduction in punishment, Frank Haviland observes in The European Conservative that the unmistakable belief behind the move is that “only white men deserve to feel the full force of the law.” Welcome to two-tier justice, British-style.