Merkel told the German arms sector: “We don’t really need you, if there is a problem we call the Americans”.

Merkel told the German arms sector: “We don’t really need you, if there is a problem we call the Americans”.

Speaking at the Welt Security Summit on July 2, Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperge recounted that Merkel had told the arms sector: “We don’t really need you, if there is a problem we call the Americans.” The dependence on Washington, he suggested, had been a deliberate choice.

He added that prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, there was “no great need for weapons systems in Germany itself” and that companies like Rheinmetall had been pushed into a “dirty corner” because they exported arms.

“They actually didn’t want us here in Germany,” he remarked.

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Charles cannot defend every faith and still defend The Faith

Charles cannot defend every faith and still defend The Faith

THERE are moments in the life of a nation when a single paragraph says more than a thousand speeches.

Buried within this year’s Sovereign Grant Report is such a paragraph, as reported in TCW by Henry Getley.

For generations, the British Crown has been publicly understood as standing at the head of our constitutional settlement as Supreme Governor of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith. Today, however, the official description speaks instead of His Majesty as one who ‘protects the space for Faith within the multi-faith nation’.

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Multicultural barbarism is destroying Europe from within

Multicultural barbarism is destroying Europe from within

Due to the heat, popular festivals and other events have been canceled across Europe, with authorities setting themselves up as guardians of public health.

An Islamic demonstration, however, was legally held in Berlin, where thousands of Muslims have just taken part in the “Ashura march,” the most important festival of Shia Islam.

Watch the video. We don’t have much time left.

They marched children tied together in a line and girls in burqas. They were being hosed down to prevent them from collapsing in the 40°C heat, while the adults cheerfully waved flags of Iran, Hezbollah, and the Islamic State.

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How media became the elite’s mercenaries

How media became the elite’s mercenaries

Frederick Forsyth described in his novel The Dogs of War a unit of hard, efficient, and unscrupulous mercenaries operating in the African conflicts of the 1960s and 70s. They had at least a code: they fulfilled the contract, admitted what they were, and moved on. The media mercenaries of today are more dangerous. They do not move on. They stay inside, gnawing at the roots of their nations on the public payroll and with ideological conviction. And they believe themselves to be journalists.

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The transgender burlesque dancer tasked with shaping the future of the Girl Guides

The transgender burlesque dancer tasked with shaping the future of the Girl Guides

Dancing on stage in knee-high boots, PVC underwear and posing provocatively with a riding crop, Paula Southin, a transgender activist, performs an erotic routine using the stage name Violette Hue in a lewd online video.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that Southin, who was born a man, is also a former Girl Guide leader and member of a key committee tasked with helping shape the future of the 116-year-old movement.

Astonishingly, the 58-year-old amateur burlesque performer was one of at least four trans activists who were asked by Girlguiding – previously The Girl Guides Association – to explore opportunities for trans girls and trans women to be ‘supported’ by the organisation.

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Every politician’s end is different. Doug Ford needs to heed lessons from previous leaders

Every politician’s end is different. Doug Ford needs to heed lessons from previous leaders

Recently, Ontario’s Doug Ford was asked if his time as Premier was coming to an end. He replied: “I’m not Dalton McGuinty, God bless Dalton McGuinty. I’m not Kathleen Wynne.”

He’s not wrong. Premiers have left for a whole lot of different reasons. I would know. I worked for Mike Harris and Ernie Eves as a writer in the Cabinet Office, as a senior political staffer for Dalton McGuinty, and on Kathleen Wynne’s 2018 campaign team.

The endings of each of their tenures were different, but there were two big similarities.


He could try to be just a little conservative once in a while.

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Seven Months of Moscow’s Drone Incursions—Report

Seven Months of Moscow’s Drone Incursions—Report

A string of drone incidents in Europe between August 2024 and February 2026 is being treated as a sign of Russian ‘success,’ as part of a coordinated campaign.

This assessment comes from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), which in a new report described the idea of a Moscow-led initiative to test European air defences with UAVs as “highly likely.”

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Where Are the Obamas and the Clintons on the Monsters Taking Over Their Party?

Where Are the Obamas and the Clintons on the Monsters Taking Over Their Party?

As the Nazis took over Germany, they were a minority party that no one really took all that seriously. Hitler was crazy, but his ramblings weren’t thought of by most Germans or the political establishment as foreshadowing. People today forget they were not a majority, as history tends to obscure reality for the sensational. Communists in Russia and China (or anywhere they destroyed, really) were a minority, too. But you should never underestimate the ability of a distinct minority to bring about massive devastation, as once radicals gain power they tend to wipe out their opposition and move quickly to consolidate control. That’s what makes the lack of comment from “leaders” on the left about the goose-steppers taking over so curious.

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What should Paris do about Hamza?

What should Paris do about Hamza?

Armed with his water gun and foul language, a truculent 14-year-old Arab boy called Hamza has become the unexpected sideshow of the Paris heatwave season.

Videos have gone viral showing the pudgy Algerian adolescent in swimming trunks terrorising Parisians along the crowded Canal Saint-Martin in the blistering summer heat. Shirtless and bare-foot, Hamza aims his water pistol at pedestrians and cyclists, extorting two euros (£1.70) from targets who are commanded to pay up or get sprayed.

Deport.

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