Qatar will never be like us – and that is not wrong

Sweden is quite sick of it. Gang violence and difficulties with the integration of newcomers: it should be over, period. A majority of the Swedes voted recently for a totally different political course. On the right, the Sweden Democrats became the largest party. And that is a fundamental shift because no party is more right-wing than the Sweden Democrats in the Nordic country.

“A clash with neo-Nazism is inevitable”, the Russian President said about Ukraine during his speech in May. That statement of Putin reminds us of an old book: “The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of the World Order”.

June is Pride month. The month par excellence in which a self-respecting Western country shows how tolerant it is regarding sexual diversity. The LGBT parades tumble over each other. Companies that like to go along with the waves of the modern spirit paint their logos temporarily in the colours of the rainbow.