This won’t blow over, Albanese

This won’t blow over, Albanese. Not until this architecture of fear has been blown to smithereens.

From Nuremberg: I’ve been exploring the city that was home to both the beginning and the end of the most atrocious form of ideological extremism in the 20th Century. Nuremberg’s Zeppelin Field, where Adolf Hitler conducted his Nazi Party propaganda rallies during the 1930s, became the scene of an American victory parade in 1945 where the huge swastika was blown to smithereens. Later, the city hosted the inevitable retribution of the Nuremberg Trials. The Nazi’s fanatical ideology had no logical end goal other than hatred.

Today, Islamic terrorism is driven by a similar fanaticism but with unconventional means to instil fear. Like Nazism, Islamic terrorism should never be allowed to fester unchecked.

Being in the heart of historical atrocities while Islamic terrorists were killing 15 Australians at home put my emotions into over-drive. It will never make any sense to me and my heart breaks for the families of the victims of Nazis here and the Islamic terrorists at home. Both groups are antisemitic in nature, but Islamic terrorism has not been called out by our Prime Minister. Much like the left’s inability to utter the words ‘Merry Christmas’, they refuse to call the Bondi attack what it is: Islamic terrorism.My latest in The Spectator Australia, This won’t blow over, Albanese.

Old hatreds have infiltrated Australia, and we let them in

We must never allow this ancient hatred to grow roots in Australian soil.

If only our government had been as dogmatic about protecting our society as it has been about protecting our ecosystem, we might have kept out ancient hatreds in the same way we have kept out rabies.

Instead, we have ended up with an extreme form of liberalism that protects the worst of us instead of those of us who contribute to the common good. Regardless of whether this was a religious or racist attack, it is clearly an attack on Australia’s Jewish people.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Old hatreds have infiltrated Australia, and we let them in.

My thoughts and prayers are with Australia’s Jewish community at this time. https://t.co/ofvwQiiwyP

— Dr Michael de Percy (@FlaneurPolitiq) December 14, 2025

If Germans won’t fight for Germany, who will?

Germany’s craps on about gender ideology, but only young men will be required to serve.

There are three things that really annoy me about the situation in Germany. First, the necessary apologies for the atrocities of the second world war have morphed into a kind of stupor where any talk of defence is somehow connected with there being ‘a different way’ to deal with dictators like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jingping. Of all people, Germans should know that an appeaser is easy pickings.

Writing in the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall had this to say:

Michael de Percy is still in Germany where the government has resurrected national service and conscription. At the moment, it is still a voluntary system for fighting-age males, but it was made clear that this could easily turn into something more compulsory if the situation deteriorates with Russia. Germany’s men have come out onto the streets to protest this move, rejecting not only conscription but the entire concept of war itself. This leads Michael to ask if they have been completely brainwashed by Woke...

In the Morning Double Shot newsletter, Terry Barnes wrote:

Michael de Percy is in Germany, but he never stops filing. Today, he observes how Germans have turned their backs on their history – the good as well as the bad – have gone utterly woke, and have become appeasers (of Putin) rather than the warriors of Europe. In short, they’re an effete and decadent lot, and will be fed to the wolves should Putin’s Russia turn on Nato. No wonder Donald Trump has had enough of the Europeans! Let’s take a leaf from Noel Coward’s book, and be beastly to the Germans.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, If Germans won’t fight for Germany, who will?

Young German men are protesting against conscription as the threat of war in Europe stirs.

"I couldn’t be sure whether the broadcaster had hand-picked interviewees or whether young German men have been completely brain-washed by Woke ideology."

If Germany and indeed the world… pic.twitter.com/WoctAwvLAP

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) December 10, 2025