In France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal and Albania. “It is a war waged by groups that are taking advantage of a civilisation in distress and which has become demoralised in every sense,” writes Melanie Phillips in The Times

A train journey beyond the Iron Curtain. In the Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchens recalls his first visit to Prague, shortly after the crackdown on the Prague Spring. A beautiful yet oppressed city, which taught him the greatest history lesson of his life

The philosopher: “Fellini wondered why we have regarded young people as messengers of some sort of absolute truth”

Historian Simon Schama in The Telegraph: “In ‘progressive’ circles, the massacres at the Nova and in the kibbutzim, rather than eliciting sympathy, sparked jubilation.” Translated by Giulio Meotti  

For decades, Paris has been financing public spending through debt; now interest payments threaten to squeeze even defence spending. Meanwhile, protests in schools and Mélenchon’s revolutionary rhetoric are putting pressure on an already fragmented political system

Three years on from 7 October, Douglas Murray reviews the long war: “Israel and its allies are winning on the ground, even though they have lost the propaganda war on the world stage”

“Julien Freund is right: it is the enemy who designates us and imposes a stance as old as the hills: collaboration or submission,” writes the philosopher in the Journal du dimanche.