Putin’s war and the making of European unity

There is now neither German nor French, Swiss nor Swede...

A few years back we were holidaying in the Vendée, a gentle and family-friendly part of France famous for the horrors of Jacobinism. In one of those deserted French villages where the median age is about 58 and you can feel the demographic death spiral around you, an oldish man started talking to us in good English. Just as Michael Oakeshott was refused…