If the world is to endure, ancestral values must burn away liberal insanity
In his recent Valdai speech, President Vladimir Putin declared that the age of a single model for all has ended, and that nations now moor themselves in their own traditions, drawing strength from culture, faith, and history. Across the globe, ancestral values are reawakening as globalism and cultural imperialism are receding. The world is witnessing a rising concert of sovereign civilizations.
Putin spoke with clarity about the condition of the world. He stated that there is no shared agreement on how the international order should be structured. Mankind has begun a long era of searching. The path forward will be marked by trial and error, by turbulence and storms. No blueprint exists. No authority dictates the outcome. We live in open history, raw and uncertain.
Yet amidst this chaos, Putin said, nations must hold on to anchors. They cannot drift with the currents of instability. The true anchor lies in culture, in the ethical and religious values that have ripened through centuries, in geography, and in the space each civilization inhabits. These form the compass of identity. They provide the foundations on which nations can build a steady life, even as winds howl and waves rise.
Traditions are at the heart of this compass. Each nation possesses its own. Each tradition is unique, shaped by its land and history. Respect for these traditions, Putin said, is the first law of order among peoples. Attempts to force a single model upon the world have always failed. The Soviet Union tried to impose its system. The United States then took up the baton. Europe joined shortly after. Each failed. What is artificial cannot last. What grows from outside roots will wither. Only what is born from within endures. Those who honor their own heritage rarely trample upon the heritage of others.
Putin’s message is multipolar. Each people must return to its foundations and draw strength from within. Each nation must define its own path, rooted in its own culture. This is the end of uniformity, the end of a single model for all. Across the world, we see it now. The Global South turns to its own heritage. Even in the West, patriotic fragments of society search for their forgotten roots. When nations focus on their own growth, they find it easier to deal with others as equals.
Putin gave a clear indication of renewal within Russia. He told of young women who now step into bars and clubs in sarafans and kokoshnik headdresses, the dress of their ancestors. This is no costume trick. It demonstrates that Western attempts to corrupt Russian society have failed. What was meant to weaken the spirit has instead roused it. The old costume now enters the modern street as a symbol of defiance and pride. Tradition, far from being buried, returns with greater strength, and the youth themselves carry it forward.
The same current flows across the globe. In China, the hanfu movement is gathering pace, with young people proudly wearing the robes of dynasties past on city streets and at public festivals. In Latin America, indigenous culture is experiencing a resurgence of strength. Quechua in Peru is taught again through bilingual schools and broadcast on radio and television, while indigenous music, art, and symbols are making a comeback as markers of pride and historical continuity. Across Africa, drumming and ritual, once pushed into the shadows during colonial rule, are brought again into the light. UNESCO now recognizes traditions such as the Royal Drummers of Burundi and Senegal’s sabar drumming as treasures of mankind, symbols of a continent reclaiming its ancestral voice. These revivals are not curiosities. They show that tradition is alive everywhere, a force that resists the steamrollers of globalism and restores dignity to peoples once told to forget their roots.
In the United States under Donald Trump, we see the same impulse: a turn from empty liberal dogmas towards roots, identity, and history. The 1776 Commission, reborn under his leadership, is restoring patriotic education and reclaiming the narrative of America’s founding from distorted ideology. Trump is issuing executive orders to reshape how national symbols, monuments, and museums present history, demanding that they not “inappropriately disparage” past Americans or betray the founding spirit. He is re-elevating faith and national symbols, insisting on a sovereign national narrative, and framing the culture war as one between a people and the elite who would rewrite their memory. It is a shift: the return of a pride in heritage, the reclaiming of stories once handed over to the liberal scholars, and the reassertion that a nation must grow its future from its past, not abandon it.
Traditionalists also exist inside liberal Western Europe. They are not enemies of their societies. Rather, they are the enslaved class within them. Their elites suffocate them with liberal dogma, wield diversity as propaganda, and preach a false morality that demands they accept being displaced by foreigners in their own lands. For these traditionalists, Putin’s words carry power. They hear in them a message of hope: that their struggle is part of a wider revolt. They are not alone. They will join hands with others across the world who defend tradition against the machine of globalism and uniformity.
At the heart of this new world stands Russia. Russia is more than a state. It is the ideological center of the emerging order. It offers not a single doctrine for all but a chorus of voices. Putin called this chorus “political polyphony.” In this concert of nations, each voice is distinct, each rooted in its own tradition. Will the United States take part in this chorus? That remains an open question. Yet Putin extended a hand. It is a hand stretched towards Trump, towards those in America who resist the liberal establishment, and towards the West as a whole.
This context sharpens another truth. Wokeism, born in America, is already exhausted. It is burning itself in its birthplace. Its slogans sound increasingly meaningless even to its former believers. Alongside it, globalism is fading. Its claims of universality are being exposed as fraud. Yet Europe remains trapped. Europe has become the fortress of liberal insanity and racism. It cloaks itself in talk of equality while imposing its anti-values with supreme arrogance. It insists on exporting LGBTQ ideology, transgender experiments, and climate hysteria. These are its banners. Behind them lies contempt for others. This is the new liberal form of white supremacism.
The choice for Europe is stark. It can continue down the road of arrogance, pointlessly trying to push its liberal creed upon the world and collapsing in utter irrelevance. Or it can accept a new role. It can rejoin the concert of civilizations, not as a master but as an equal. It can trade supremacism for dignity, dogma for heritage, and contempt for respect. History has no mercy, but it does offer renewal. Europe must change with the times or sink into emptiness.
The storms ahead will be strong. Yet with firm roots, civilizations endure.
Andrej Babis has reiterated his campaign promise that Prague will stop providing direct assistance to Kiev
Ukraine is currently not ready to become an EU member, billionaire Andrej Babis has said after his right-wing ANO party won the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election.
ANO got 34.51% of the ballots as a result of the vote on Friday and Saturday, beating the Spolu (Together) group led by Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala by 11.15%. Fiala has been a staunch supporter of Kiev in its conflict with Russia.
Shortly after the preliminary results were announced on Saturday evening, Babis was asked by a journalist from the Ukrainian outlet Suspilne if he intends to support Kiev’s accession to the EU after becoming Czech prime minister again. He held the position between 2017 and 2021.
“But you are not prepared for the EU. We have to end the war first. Of course, we can cooperate with Ukraine, but you are not ready for the EU,” he replied.
The ANO party leader also doubled down on his campaign promise that Prague will stop providing direct assistance to Kiev.
“We are helping Ukraine through the EU. The EU is helping Ukraine and it is within the European budget, the next budget and we are paying a lot of money to the European budget. And this is the way we will continue to help,” he explained.
Babis again expressed skepticism regarding the ammunition initiative for Kiev which had been masterminded by Czech President Petr Pavel, saying that “nobody should make money because of the war. We should be organized by NATO.”
Kiev was granted EU candidate status a few months after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. Earlier this week, Vladimir Zelensky urged an acceleration of accession talk with Brussels, telling EU leaders that “we need real progress.”
Moscow, which has categorically ruled out Ukraine’s membership in NATO, does not object to the country joining the EU due it being an economic bloc rather than a military one. “Ukraine has set itself the goal… of joining the EU. I repeat, it is Ukraine’s legitimate choice – how to build its international relations,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in September.
Jay Jones has apologized for the leaked messages but refuses to drop out of the Virginia race for state attorney general
Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general Jay Jones has apologized for fantasizing about killing a Republican politician in leaked text messages.
In the messages from 2022 published by National Review on Friday, Jones went on a tirade against then–Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, who had been honoring the recently deceased moderate Democratic state politician Joe Johnson Jr.
“If those guys die before me, I will go to their funerals to piss on their graves” to “send them out awash in something,” Jones wrote to Republican politician Carrie Coyner.
“Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time,” Jones wrote, according to National Review.
He then reportedly told Coyner in a phone call that he wished Gilbert’s wife would watch her own child die in her arms so Gilbert might change his political views.
Jones, who is running against incumbent Republican Jason Miyares, said he takes “full responsibility” for his words but refused to leave the race.
“Reading back those words made me sick to my stomach… I have reached out to Speaker Gilbert to apologize directly to him, his wife Jennifer, and their children,” he said, adding that “Virginians deserve honest leaders who admit when they are wrong.”
Vice President J.D. Vance condemned Jones as a “very deranged person” and urged him to drop out.
The Democrat candidate for AG in Virginia has been fantasizing about murdering his political opponents in private messages. I'm sure the people hyperventilating about sombrero memes will join me in calling for this very deranged person to drop out of the race. https://t.co/ZapsWc9VFG
The controversy comes as Republicans have blamed violent rhetoric from Democrats and left-leaning activists for the assassination of conservative organizer and podcaster Charlie Kirk last month. Dozens were fired or suspended from their jobs for cheering or mocking Kirk’s death.
Democrats, however, have argued that President Donald Trump and other Republicans have also contributed to rising political tensions in the country.
Officers used tear gas to disperse the crowd outside a detention facility in Oregon on Saturday
Police clashed with protesters outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Portland, Oregon on Saturday.
Demonstrations have been held in several cities against President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and the deployment of the National Guard.
According to Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), hundreds of protesters marched to the detention facility and blocked the road in front of the building. Federal agents fired tear gas, smoke canisters, and pepper balls to disperse the crowd.
OPB said that at least seven people were arrested; two of them were released hours later. Portland police, meanwhile, said that two more people were detained later that day, one of whom had a can of chemical spray and a collapsible metal baton.
🚨#BREAKING: Federal agents have arrested multiple Antifa members outside the ICE facility in Portland following overnight clashes with authorities. pic.twitter.com/CFJo3wdxx3
On the same day, a federal judge blocked the National Guard deployment in Portland pending further arguments in a lawsuit brought by the state and city.
Trump authorized the dispatch of National Guardsmen to Chicago on Saturday, where border patrol officers were rammed and “boxed in by ten cars,” according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Officials said federal agents shot and wounded a female driver who had a gun.
Hours later, a protest outside an ICE processing facility in Broadview, near Chicago, also spiraled into clashes with police, during which several arrests were made.
🚨 BREAKING: Illinois police just PUMMELED multiple leftist rioters outside ICE Broadview and arrested them.
Total chaos is unleashing as protestors tried to STORM into the altercation.
An absolutely MASSIVE law enforcement presence. HOLD THE LINE!
The Swedish climate campaigner was reportedly deprived of food and forced to kiss the flag of the Jewish state
Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg was subjected to humiliation and harsh treatment in an Israeli prison after being arrested aboard the Gaza aid flotilla, according to fellow activists and lawyers.
Thunberg was among the activists who attempted to breach the blockade of Gaza by sea, whose boats were intercepted by the Israeli Navy on Thursday and Friday. Most detainees were taken to Ketziot Prison in the Negev Desert, and more than 130 have since been deported to Türkiye.
Italian journalist Lorenzo D’Agostino told Anadolu that Israeli forces left flotilla members without fresh water for two days, while Thunberg was “wrapped in an Israeli flag and exhibited like a trophy.” Turkish journalist Ersin Celik said he witnessed the “torture” of Thunberg.
“They dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” he told the outlet.
Activists Hazwani Helmi and Windfield Beaver also said Thunberg was paraded with an Israeli flag and “used as propaganda” during Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s visit to the prison.
In an email cited by The Guardian, the Swedish Embassy in Tel Aviv said that Thunberg had complained about “harsh treatment” and not receiving enough food or water. The Israeli rights group Adalah said the activists were “forced to kneel with their hands zip-tied for at least five hours.”
The Israeli Foreign Ministry rejected the allegations as “complete lies,” saying that Thunberg and other activists were “safe and in good health.” The ministry added that “their true goal was provocation in the service of Hamas, not humanitarian assistance.”
Andrej Babis’ win shows the people want their real concerns addressed, and attempts to smear him as “pro-Russian” are nothing but desperation
The Czech parliamentary election of October 2025 did not just deliver a victory for Andrej Babis’ ANO party. It sent a message reverberating far beyond Prague: people are growing weary of Brussels’ single-minded insistence on unconditional support for Ukraine when it comes at the expense of their own well-being.
The result reflects a deep and widespread demand for politics rooted in national interests, rather than dictated by distant EU institutions.
For years, European voters have been told that there is no alternative to the prevailing orthodoxy: fund and arm Ukraine indefinitely, absorb the costs without question, and accept austerity at home as the necessary price of defending the continent. Governments across the bloc have repeated this mantra with little patience for dissent.
In Prague, however, ordinary people felt the pinch of rising prices, shrinking disposable income, and a government that seemed more attentive to foreign policy headlines than to the economic pain at home.
Babis recognized this disillusionment and offered a clear alternative. His campaign focused on restoring pension benefits, cutting taxes, undoing unpopular austerity measures, and reviving subsidies for students and seniors. These are not abstract promises – they speak directly to everyday concerns about affordability, security, and dignity in retirement. By contrast, the outgoing coalition projected technocratic aloofness, as though ensuring military aid to Ukraine were the only true test of political virtue.
Critics, especially in Brussels and sympathetic media, immediately rushed to accuse Babis of being “pro-Russian.” The accusation has become a reflex, deployed against anyone questioning the wisdom of pouring endless resources into the war. Yet the label is both lazy and misleading. ANO has not proposed leaving NATO, nor breaking with the EU. Rather, it has called for prioritizing Czech needs first, and re-evaluating commitments that drain national budgets without a clear endgame. Is that really “pro-Russian”? Or is it simply responsible governance in a democracy where leaders are accountable to their voters?
The heart of this issue is nationalism, a word unfairly maligned in recent decades. Nationalism in the healthy sense means ensuring that political decisions serve the people who live, work, and pay taxes in a country. Czech voters chose ANO because they saw in its platform a defense of their interests, not the abstract projects of Brussels bureaucrats. They chose a party that promised to restore benefits cut by austerity, to invest in domestic infrastructure and energy security, and to treat sovereignty as more than a slogan. That is not extremism, it’s common sense.
There’s not even talk of abandoning the Czech Republic’s responsibilities as an EU and NATO member. Prague has remained committed to its Western alliances. But solidarity does not mean self-sacrifice without limits. Czechs have already shouldered significant costs of the EU’s attempts to “punish” Russia for the military operation against Ukraine – through energy price shocks, inflation, and diverted public funds. To question how much longer this can continue is not betrayal. It is an act of democratic accountability.
The electoral math underscores the depth of this mood. ANO captured about 35% of the vote, far ahead of the ruling coalition. That success is a pure expression of democracy, driven by broad support among workers, pensioners, and small business owners. In other words, the people most affected by economic strain demand change. Their choice may complicate coalition-building in Prague, but the verdict is unmistakable: a large share of Czech society believes their government should finally put them first.
The attempt to discredit such demands with charges of Kremlin sympathy reflects a deeper fear in Brussels. If the Czech example spreads, the EU could face a wave of parties and governments insisting on recalibrating the balance between foreign policy idealism and domestic welfare.
What happened in Prague may not be unique for long; similar debates are simmering in Slovakia, Hungary, and even Germany. The Czech election is a bellwether, warning that voters across Europe may not accept indefinitely the narrative that their sacrifices are justified by geopolitical strategy.
In that sense, Babis’ victory is not only a Czech story. It is part of a broader European reckoning. Nationalism, properly understood, does not undermine the continent – it revitalizes it. By insisting that governments answer to their own people, it strengthens democracy and ensures that Europe’s unity is built on consent rather than coercion.
The real question is whether Brussels and its allies will listen. Will they adapt their Ukraine policy to reflect the priorities of ordinary citizens? Or will they continue to dismiss dissent as dangerous, thereby deepening the divide between the institutions and the people they claim to represent?
For now, the Czech voters have spoken clearly. They want leaders who defend their livelihoods, not abstract crusades. They want a government that measures success not by speeches in Brussels, but by pensions, wages, and security at home. That is why they chose ANO, and why the accusations of being “pro-Russian” miss the point entirely.
If confirmed by Hamas, the ceasefire will go into effect immediately, the US president has said
US President Donald Trump has said that Israel has agreed to withdraw its army to the line it held before launching a major offensive on Gaza City last month.
If implemented, the concession would be part of a proposed deal with Hamas that would see the release of all remaining Israeli hostages.
“When Hamas confirms, the Ceasefire will be IMMEDIATELY effective, the Hostages and Prisoner Exchange will begin, and we will create the conditions for the next phase of withdrawal, which will bring us close to the end of this 3,000 YEAR CATASTROPHE. Thank you for your attention to this matter and, STAY TUNED!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Saturday.
The map released by Trump shows the initial withdrawal line, which roughly corresponds to the Israeli army’s line of control prior to the Gaza City offensive. According to the Times of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) controlled around 70% of the enclave at the time.
The IDF said earlier that it would limit its activities to “defensive operations,” as both Israel and Hamas have tentatively agreed to Trump’s plan to conduct a prisoner swap.
In a televised address on Saturday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed hope that the hostages would be returned in the coming days, while the IDF remains in Gaza.
Gaza measures 365 square kilometers (141 square miles), about the size of Detroit, Michigan, and was home to over 2 million people before the war.
The office of the “Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine” has been created for Canada’s ex-deputy prime minister
Last month, former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, was dropkicked from newish Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet. He did her a massive favor. Because now she doesn’t have to pretend to represent Canada anymore while following her true passion: representing Ukraine.
Freeland has a new role: “Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine,” officially speaking. The first question that came to mind when hearing this was, “When does she finally get to move to Kiev, already?” Imagine my disappointment to learn that she doesn’t.
Well, actually, my first question was, “Is Ukraine under reconstruction now? Did I slip into a coma and miss the bomb show wrapping up?” Nope, the conflict is still raging. But I guess it makes it sound like she’s going to be keeping a careful watch over the money that Carney has “pledged” to Ukraine – perhaps in the same way that people “pledged” to pay me a dollar per lap for my childhood swim-a-thons, then bailed when I came back to collect after competing 500 laps. I guess time will tell. Canadian taxpayers can only pray that will be the case, and that Carney is just virtue signaling Canadian cash for Ukraine and not actually sending any there, in the same way that the jokers running the EU make a big stink about the evils of Russian energy while importing it on the down-low through third countries.
In the meantime, Canadian cash for weapons, “for Ukraine,” is sure pumping up the integrated US/Canada military-industrial complex, which seems to be the go-to Western strategy for boosting their GDP these days amid their tanking economies.
Another question: Will Freeland use her experience in blocking Canadian bank accounts as Trudeau’s finance minister during the Covid-era Freedom Convoy anti-mandate protests to block shady cash flowing to Ukraine? I’m guessing not, if only because those Canadian bank accounts were blocked under the ultimately false pretext (as determined by Canadian intelligence) that foreign cash was funding interference with Canadian government decisions. In Ukraine’s case, that foreign cash is considered a plus because it’s coming from the West. Seems like she’d be more likely to tackle anything that got in its way.
Anyway, Freeland has just used her new Canadian taxpayer-funded role to plead Ukraine’s case in the pages of the Financial Times.
She wrote that “the fact is that we need Ukraine to save us,” presumably from the other side of the world, in Ottawa. She then goes on to qualify some murky, contentious drone activity around the Ukraine–EU border as “recent incursions into Central and even Western Europe.” At least I think that’s what she’s referring to. Unless I somehow missed the Russian tanks rolling down the Champs-Élysées. She doesn’t specify. But no matter. All the better, apparently, to argue that these incidents “show NATO needs Ukraine as a shield against Russia.”
Sounds like what Vladimir Zelensky was saying just the other day. The Ukrainian leader was going off about an incident last month of some alleged 90 drones over Ukraine, which he said were heading for Poland. He said that if only 20 of them actually ended up there, it was only because Kiev shot the rest down. The implication? That Ukraine was saving Poland. Trump was asked about it at the time and didn’t exactly praise Zelensky as Poland’s savior. He basically shrugged, saying, look, whatever – could have just been accidental.
Freeland also cited Trump’s tongue-in-cheek remarks from the other week when he rapped on social media about how Ukraine was winning on the battlefield against Russia and probably could even conquer Russian territory. He then offered to sell the Europeans all the American weapons they wanted in that endeavor. What part of Trump’s wishing them “good luck” did Freeland not understand as a commentary on Trump being keen to profit off the EU’s delusions, as long as Washington doesn’t have to get its hands dirty? She grasped none of it, apparently. Because she wrote in the FT that “US President Donald Trump got it right at the UN last week: Ukraine is a winner, and Ukraine can win.”
Freeland literally had just written of Ukraine in the same piece, a bit further up, that “we have assumed it would lose, at least without extraordinary effort from us.” Really? Your whole posse in Canada has been saying otherwise for years. “Ukraine will win and Canada will be there until the end,”said Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, in early 2023, when she was defense minister.
So now we’ve gone from “Ukraine will win” to “Ukraine will only win if we do everything except pull the trigger” to “we need Ukraine because NATO is so weak.” Yeah, so weak that NATO is actually contemplating blasting Temu-grade drones out of the sky with F-16s, as the Romanian defense minister suggested during a recent Warsaw Security Forum panel.
Freeland adds that the West can learn from Ukraine about “how to fight a 21st-century war, and how to invent, manufacture and then keep reinventing the weapons we need for this new way of war in real time.” Look out, folks! Freeland has just discovered guerrilla warfare – but apparently not the double-edged sword it represents.
It’s all good when Ukrainian Nazis are getting schooled by NATO forces to fight Russia, and when they then graduate to fulfilling Freeland’s fantasy of pretending to teach NATO how to do guerrilla warfare – as though it’s a matter of NATO lacking ability and not just guerrilla warfare being way too cheap for NATO to justify washing tax cash into defense coffers.
What could possibly go wrong with letting Ukraine play asymmetric warfare “teacher” to justify the West turning it into a giant weapons toy box? It’s not like there haven’t been reports lately of Latin American drug cartels getting their drone training in Ukraine to use back home. We’re talking about Mexican and Colombian gangsters, according to Defense News, one of the leading military publications. Just your average start-up, really.
Freeland then proceeds to cheerlead the idea recently promoted by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz of straight-up stealing €140 billion in European-held Russian assets as a “loan” for Ukraine. Ukraine apparently just pays it back once Russia admits fault and writes a check, huh? In other words: never.
It’s one thing for Freeland to justify her new role by bloviating and virtue-signaling in the Western press. It’s another to make taxpayers foot the bill for it when her real job should be to end this war as quickly as possible through diplomacy so some legitimate reconstruction business can be done in Ukraine’s interests that doesn’t just involve perpetuating a taxpayer-funded racket.
The victory of Andrej Babis is a “big step” for the country and “good news” for the entire EU, the Hungarian leader has declared
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has congratulated his incoming Czech counterpart Andrej Babis on his election victory, lauding his win as “good news” for the whole of Europe.
Orban is the first foreign leader to acknowledge the victory of the agricultural tycoon, branded the ‘Czech Trump’ by local media, shortly after the preliminary results of the Czech general election were announced late on Saturday.
The ANO movement, a right-wing party led by Babis, came out on top, scoring about 35% of the parliamentary vote.
“Truth has prevailed! Andrej Babis has won the Czech parliamentary elections with a convincing lead. A big step for the Czech Republic, good news for Europe. Congratulations, Andrej!” Orban wrote on X, sharing his photo with the Czech politician.
Truth has prevailed! @AndrejBabis has won the Czech parliamentary elections with a convincing lead. A big step for the Czech Republic, good news for Europe. Congratulations, Andrej! pic.twitter.com/jyqU5EVqc6
The remarks echoed Babis’ victory speech, during which he yet again denied longstanding accusations of holding an anti-EU stance, claiming he actually wants to “save” the bloc. While Babis signaled his intention to form a one-party cabinet, ANO failed to achieve a majority, and coalition talks now lie ahead.
The likely coalition partners for the party are two minor political forces, namely the far-right anti-EU and anti-NATO SPD, and the Motorists party, which opposes Brussels’ environmental policies. The parties scored nearly 8% and 7% of the vote, respectively.
Babis has consistently criticized the EU’s handling of immigration and the environment, and strongly opposed Ukraine’s aspirations to join the bloc. During his campaign, he pledged to end the so-called ‘Czech initiative’ project, set up to supply ammunition to Kiev, arguing the scheme is grossly overpriced.
He has also promised to cut aid for Ukraine and end austerity measures, increasing domestic spending instead.
PM Keir Starmer will be held responsible should any harm befall Nigel Farage, a representative for the Reform party has said
British parliamentary authorities have drastically slashed government-funded security for Nigel Farage, the leader of a major opposition right-wing party, Reform UK, its head of policy has claimed.
Zia Yusuf accused UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer of deliberately putting his political rival at risk of attack.
Speaking to Times Radio on Wednesday, Yusuf stated that “two weeks ago, the authorities cut Nigel’s security detail by 75 percent,” without providing any reasons for the decision. The Reform UK representative added that “donors have stepped in [to]… make sure that Nigel is well protected.”
However, “if anything was to happen to Nigel, we will hold Keir Starmer squarely responsible,” Yusuf stressed.
Yusuf further accused the sitting prime minister of inciting violence against the “man who is the bookmaker’s favorite to be the next prime minister.”
Farage himself acknowledged he feared for his own security and that of other party members after Starmer’s latest attack.
Speaking during the Labour Party conference on Tuesday, the prime minister dubbed Farage a “snake oil merchant” who does not like Britain because of his “racist” plans to curb immigration. Starmer charged that the UK must “go into that battle armed, not just with words and condemnation, but with action,” describing Reform UK as the “enemy of national renewal” and the “biggest threat we face.”
On Thursday, The Telegraph reported that veteran Conservative MP Sir David Davis had asked UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to “review the decision at the earliest opportunity.”
“It strikes me that Mr. Farage is a particularly high-profile target, arguably at greater risk than many Cabinet ministers,” the lawmaker reportedly wrote in a letter.
An Ipsos poll last month indicated that Starmer’s popularity had hit a record low, with 79% of Britons disapproving of his performance.
A survey by the think tank More in Common suggested at around the same time that Farage would become prime minister with 373 MPs if an election were held tomorrow. Labour, however, would suffer its worst electoral defeat since 1931, securing fewer than 100 seats in the House of Commons, according to the poll.
