Following the publication of preliminary results, it is clear that as was very much expected, Emmanuel Macron has beaten Marine Le Pen in the second round of the French Presidential elections by approximately 65.5% to 34.5%. Despite defeat. Marine Le Pen has achieved a higher second round percentage of the vote than any nationalist candidate has ever achieved and more than twice the share of the vote achieved by her father Jean-Marie Le Pen in…

The fall of the Left/Liberal consensus has long been anticipated by those on our side of politics; the Left is devoid of ideas and originality, all of its nostrums have been tested to destruction and the consequences – societal breakdown – are all around us. The empty husk waits only for a fresh, strong, breeze to blow it out of the positions of power and influence which it still occupies by sheer inertia. Alex Kurtagic…