The Weekly Forum - 8 April 2026

As the Iran war flits from one grotesque extreme to another, like a flying carpet, the Ukraine war grinds on remorselessly, bogged down in the black earth of the steppe. While the various fronts of the war in the Middle East change by the minute, the war in the Ukraine is the same as it was last year and the year before that. Certainly, the West’s approach has not budged: ever more sanctions against Russia, ever more billions shovelled into the war. Ralf Dekker MP recently reminded the Dutch parliament that the Netherlands has sent 21 billion euros directly to Ukraine since the war started and continues to send 3 billion every year in military aid. These are only the visible costs and do not include the cost of refugees, higher energy prices, markets closed to business, and so on. While ordinary Europeans are struggling to make ends meet, the honey pot never runs dry for the Ukrainians. FVD’s position is clear: stop this madness, it is not our war.

Watch Ralf Dekker’s speech here

Meanwhile the European political establishment is determined, perhaps more than anything else, to kill off its own population through abortion, while simultaneously replacing it with other populations through industrial levels of immigration. The right to abortion has become one of the supreme moral reference points of our age. Support for it is so extreme that it goes way beyond what the law itself allows. As Gideon van Meijeren MP recently recalled, abortion law decriminalises certain acts under certain conditions, it does not create a right. In particular, doctors must tell women who want abortions about the alternatives. In reality, this does not happen. On the contrary, you can now obtain abortion pills online without consultation. This is a crime in Dutch law – but it is ignored. What would we say if you could order suicide pills legally by post? You could perhaps argue on the basis of consent – a consent which is, to put it mildly, absent from the unborn child. Can we not at least agree that the law should be enforced? Apparently not, but only FVD seems to care.

Watch Gideon’s van Meijeren’s speech here

Why does FVD always stand out from the crowd? Because FVD is genuinely interested in life, creativity and the unexpected. This is the opposite approach to that of the careerist politicians who smother all inventiveness in the name of security, procedure and stability.  Peter van Duijvenvoorde MP recently bemoaned the stifling conformism of Dutch and European universities – something which did not exist a generation ago when different universities offered different, sometimes opposing, views of life. Now they have all been gleichgeschaltet through political correctness and the dead hand of bureaucracy – bureaucracy which believes that it can and should direct the pursuit of knowledge to so-called ‘useful’ ends. This is nothing but the politicisation of science which, like the politicisation of the arts, kills it.

Watch Peter van Duijvenvoorde’s speech here

Tom Russcher MP has teamed up with the prominent influencer Dutch Travel Maniac to shed light on the terrifying lawlessness of asylum centres. These centres exist all over Europe and in the Netherlands. DTM has made videos about them and the crime and abuse which festers in and around them: drug dealing, weapons, violence, sexual assault - you name it. DTM’s videos – here and here – are superb examples of investigative journalism (naturally, never carried out by legacy MSM) and truly shocking. Please take time to read the questions. You will shake your head in disbelief that our collective suicide is so far advanced.

Read Tom Russcher’s questions here

Marta Havryshko, a Jewish Ukrainian academic based in Massachusetts, was our guest on The Forum this week, together with classicist and journalist Isabelle Buhre, to discuss forced mobilisation in Ukraine. If you missed it, you can watch back by clicking below.

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