The Weekly Forum - 25 October

When he was interviewed by TV Libertés in Paris, Thierry Baudet made a number of radical points. Perhaps the most intriguing concerned the relationship between philosophy and power – the very dilemma which Plato addresses in his Seventh Letter when he explains that he was led to philosophy by his disillusionment with politics. Thierry expressed the view, very firmly, that it is more important to change ideas by attacking wrong ones at their root – on climate change, on war, on immigration – than to wield a tiny amount of power by becoming Minister for Paperclips in the coalition government.

Watch an extract from Thierry's interview here

On all these issues, he went on, Forum for Democracy is in disagreement with the Freedom Party of Geert Wilders. On all the big questions – Covid, referendums, Nexit, Ukraine – Wilders has adopted establishment positions, whether for opportunistic reasons (he abandoned Nexit in order to create a government coalition) or because, as on Covid, he never had any problem with lockdowns and other attacks on the liberal order. This is why FVD prefers opposition – radical opposition.

Watch an extract from Thierry's interview here

As FVD has said many times, politics is not about politics. It is instead about much more fundamental human things - culture, sex and power. The American election campaign between an allegedly consensual female candidate (‘Country before party’ Harris) and an allegedly authoritarian man (‘Trump admired Hitler’) is a grotesque illustration of this. FVD International’s Vincent Vos visited Brussels recently, where he participated in meetings in the institutions of the European Union. His main conclusion was that the representatives of his country are simply weak people and that the defence of national sovereignty is a matter of strength and will, as demonstrated recently by Viktor Orban when he spoke in the European Parliament and was roundly attacked … mainly by women.

Read Vincent Vos' article here

Descartes is usually thought of as a rationalist, the embodiment of the new spirit of secularism which characterizes modernity. But this is to look at history through the rear-view mirror, as if someone who wrote three centuries ago were necessarily travelling in the same direction as us. As Sid Lukkassen shows, Descartes in fact used religion, or at least God, to achieve that certainty which ordinary life cannot give us.

Read Sid Lukkassen's article on Descartes here

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John Laughland,
Director FVD International