Alex Soros, George’s son, is worth listening to at Davos

I say this not because he makes good points, but because he’s a nincompoop—but an immensely powerful one. We need to know who he is.

eorge Soros’s son, Alexander (“Alex”), made his public debut at Davos. Before that, we’d only known him as the heir to the Soros political empire (Daddy is worth about $7.2 billion), which is dedicated entirely to left-wing causes. We’d also known him because every Democrat politician now makes obeisance to him as part of any campaign.

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Starmer, Carney and the twilight of the globalists

‘The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.’ Opinion writers have once again been dusting off Thucydides’ ancient dictum, in a desperate attempt to understand the new world another tumultuous week in international affairs has left us in… and to find a vaguely intelligent-sounding opener to a column. A crime – I guess – of which I am also now guilty.

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How Trudeau Liberals’ DEI obsession helped kill Canadian culture

Former CBC exec says DEI wasn’t meant to be a punishing exercise in ideological purity but to celebrate what had been arbitrarily suppressed

Set for release Jan. 27, Lament for a Literature is the new book from Richard Stursberg, in which he laments the decline of Canadian literature, for which he blames multiple factors. In this excerpt, he addresses the impact of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, arguing they took over a badly weakened cultural sector from the Harper Conservatives and threw money at it without addressing the difficult structural issues affecting it, only making things worse. The government, he said, did not understand “that as Canadian media eroded and Canadians embraced the new foreign digital platforms, they walked away from Canada itself. They no longer consumed Canadian news, laughed at Canadian comedies, read Canadian books, watched Canadian documentaries, or heard the opinions of Canadian experts on domestic social, cultural, political, economic, or historical issues. They effectively left the national conversation and moved to another amorphous, filter-bubbling virtual country.”

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The mother of four – and force of nature – battling the politicians who think it’s OK to dump hundreds of young migrant men on her pretty little town in Sussex

Anti-Migrant Mum of Crowborough

Three months ago Kim Bailey considered her life humdrum. ‘I was working full-time as a manager in the public sector.

‘I’d walk my dogs in the forest. I’d been married for ten years. I didn’t go out much,’ says the modest mother-of-four by way of illustrating just how unremarkable her routine in the pretty East Sussex town of Crowborough was. ‘I was boring – very boring,’ she insists.

Walking the streets with banners? Certainly not. Rebutting the words of seasoned politicians at public meetings? Not so much. Appearing on breakfast television? Nope. ‘I’d never been on a protest before, I’d never done anything like this in my life.’

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Can Pierre Poilievre’s conservatism win in our brave new world?

What kind of conservative is Pierre Poilievre, exactly? It’s a question lots of Canadians were asking a little over a year ago, when the Conservative Party Leader looked almost certain to become Canada’s 24th Prime Minister. Commentators analyzed his every move; political scientists theorized about his coalition; critics warned about his populist brand of conservatism.

Then things changed, upended by a U.S. President who seems intent on blowing up not just Canadian politics, but the entire world order. And after a historic Liberal comeback, many of those same people have now written Mr. Poilievre off as a man whose moment has passed. A little less than a year after what was predicted to be a coronation, he now faces a party leadership review.

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The demonisation of white boys won’t end well

IN THE heart of Britain’s education system, a troubling narrative is unfolding, one that disproportionately targets white British boys under the guise of combating misogyny.

The updated Relationships, Sex and Health Education curriculum in England, with similar lessons already being taught in Scotland, pushes lessons on online harms, pornography, incel (involuntarily celibate) culture, and what the Government calls toxic masculinity. Boys are told they are the problem. Girls are framed as potential victims while the same behaviours in girls often go unexamined.

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Team Trump Is Livid After Canada’s Carney Calls Out U.S. Coercion

OTTAWA—Canada and the Trump administration are locked in a war of words over Prime Minister Mark Carney’s bid to chart a new model for smaller powers to fight back against the U.S.’s aggressive use of its economic and military might.

In the past week, Carney has resolved a trade dispute with America’s biggest strategic competitor, China, and delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland urging smaller powers to unite against economic coercion from the world’s great powers.

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A short history of the New York Times being wrong about everything

The paper’s coverage of Nazi Germany may have been naïve, but their coverage of the Soviet Union was shameful

The “nothing ever happens” people seem to be, sadly, correct about Iran thus far, although one hopes that the brutal Islamic Republic might still be overthrown. It’s hard to know what to think, and at times like this we all turn to the experts to give their analysis of what might happen and what might follow.

Foreign policy expertise is hard work, because it requires both a specific knowledge of the national culture and the relative strength of personalities. Because there are so many factors involved, analysts frequently get things completely wrong, the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles being the notorious examples. The art of “superforecasting” came about because US foreign policy experts turned out to be disastrously wedded to preconceived ideas; the success of superforecasters suggests that people with less specialist knowledge but a better control of their biases do a more accurate job of predicting events.

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This Carney Is a Clown: The Insufferable Cowardice of Canada

Our commitment to NATO’s Article 5 is unwavering, so we’re working with our NATO allies, including the Nordic Baltic Gate, to further secure the alliance’s northern and western flanks, including through Canada’s unprecedented investments in over-the-horizon radar, in submarines, in aircraft and boots on the ground, boots on the ice.

—Prime Minister Mark Carney, Jan. 20, 2026, Davos address

“Unwavering,” eh? Hmm, let me consult my Canadian-to-English dictionary… aha! Turns out “unwavering” is Canadian for “underfunded by freeriding, Maple syrup-slurping cheapskates”: Canada hasn’t honored its 2% NATO defense spending agreement in nearly 40 years!

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Risky business: Sex workers demand soars in Davos during World Economic Forum

Demand for sex workers in Davos skyrocketed during this year’s World Economic Forum — including one client who allegedly shelled out a whopping $114,000 for four days with five women.

The apparent work hard, party harder attitude of the global elite was apparent in the voracious appetite for escorts in the Swiss town, where global leaders, big tech CEOs and moneyed magnates sent requests for sex workers surging, according to the Swiss dating and erotic services platform Titt4Tat.

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Killers of Indigenous women less likely to face murder charges. ‘The justice institution has failed us’

Indigenous women and girls are killed at rates six times higher than non-Indigenous women — yet the perpetrators are frequently convicted of lesser offences than those guilty in the deaths of non-Indigenous victims.

In virtually all cases involving Indigenous women, the victim and accused knew each other.

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EU Launches ‘Hate Speech’ Crackdown in New ‘Anti-Racism’ Drive

The European Union wants to prosecute more people for online “hate speech.”

This week, the European Commission issued a direct challenge to the Trump administration by releasing a sprawling “Anti-Racism Strategy” for 2026–2030. The document heavily prioritizes expanding the policing of “hate speech,” especially online, framing the effort as “Stepping Up Protection Against Racial Hatred.”

Last year, Vice President JD Vance delivered an address to the Munich Security Conference in which he warned, “In Britain, and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.”

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