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Timothy Garton Ash's newsletter offers personal and analytical reflections from a European 'historian of the present' on current events, history, and European politics. Readers get essays tying contemporary issues like Russian aggression toward Ukraine, French student protests, and tributes to figures like Adam Michnik to deeper historical context.
Sam and Lawrence Freedman write analysis of politics, policy and foreign affairs, covering topics such as the European radical right, the US-Iran war and the effects of AI on institutions. Each issue offers argued commentary backed by polling, reporting and data.
Niall Ferguson's Time Machine is a Substack newsletter from historian Niall Ferguson that uses historical analysis to examine current economics, politics, and culture. Issues cover topics such as European protests and debt, American founding principles, election-year risks, and newly unlocked Nixon White House tape transcripts.
The Western Spirit is a blog exploring the Catholic heritage behind Western civilization, featuring historical essays on figures and places such as St. Frideswide's Oxford and the Knights Templar. It also offers commentary on contemporary European and American politics viewed through a religious and cultural lens.
A Substack covering European politics, migration, security and economics through a weekly news round-up and longer opinionated analyses. Readers get a strongly argued, right-leaning critical perspective on Western European governance alongside some explanatory reporting.
Matt Goodwin's newsletter offers strongly opinionated commentary on British and European politics, focusing on immigration, national identity, the left and electoral prospects of populist right parties. It combines polling figures and think-tank findings with a polemical, anti-establishment argument.
Short news commentary pieces on European politics, focused on immigration, Islam and integration policy, written from an explicitly right-leaning, anti-mainstream perspective. Readers get the author's framing of EU and national developments in Sweden and Italy, with some links to primary sources.
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