Spainâs ruling Socialist Workersâ Party (PSOE) suffered a crushing setback in the snap regional elections in AragĂłn.
In the ballot yesterday, it slumped to one of its worst historical performance, losing ground amid a surge by the right-wing Vox party.
Provisional results from the Government of AragĂłn and the National Electoral Commission, with more than 98 per cent of votes counted, show the centre-right Peopleâs Party (PP) emerging as the largest force with 26 seats in the 67-seat Cortes of AragĂłn. That is down two from its 2023 tally, despite topping the poll with around 34 per cent of the vote.
The PSOE, led by former minister Pilar AlegrĂa, collapsed to 18 seats, down five, equalling its all-time low from 2015. It secured 24.3 per cent of the vote in what analysts describe as a humiliating defeat for Prime Minister Pedro SĂĄnchezâs party.
Vox delivered the nightâs clearest winner, more than doubling its representation from seven to 14 seats and claiming nearly 18 per cent of the vote, a sharp rise that cements its role as kingmaker in any right-wing coalition.
Regional party Chunta Aragonesista (CHA) also doubled its seats to six, capitalising on disillusionment on the Left, while smaller groups such as AragĂłn Existe held two and Izquierda Unida-Movimiento Sumar retained one.
The snap poll, called by PP regional President Jorge AzcĂłn after budget gridlock, was intended to strengthen his position but instead left the PP even more reliant on Vox support to form a government.
In 2024, Vox had left the regional AragĂłn Governmeny, citing unhappiness with the lack of structural reforms within the government, although others saw it more as an electoral move.
AzcĂłn declared victory, insisting the PP remained the only party capable of leading and vowing to begin investiture talks immediately. âWe have won the elections and only the PP can form a government,â AzcĂłn said, while acknowledging the need for alliances.
AlegrĂa conceded the result was ânot goodâ for the PSOE, framing it as evidence that the PP had become âeven more hostage to the far rightâ.
SĂĄnchez, speaking from Madrid, congratulated AzcĂłn but insisted the PSOE would continue as âthe only progressive alternativeâ nationally.
Vox leader Alejandro Nolasco hailed the outcome as a rejection of the âbipartisan scamâ, positioning his party as the true driver of change on the Right.
The result in AragĂłn â often dubbed âSpainâs Ohioâ for its role as a national bellwether â follows a similar PSOE rout in Extremadura in December 2025 and deepens pressure on SĂĄnchezâs minority government in Madrid.
Spanish Socialists are weighed down by several major corruption scandals, economic concerns and migration debates, with the PSOE-led central government in Madrid recently deciding to legalise 500,000 migrants in a controversial move.
AragĂłn now faces coalition negotiations, with the PP-Vox axis appearing the most viable path to a stable majority, although talks could prove fraught given Voxâs demands on issues such as immigration and regional autonomy.
Randy Andy creeping over a woman laying down on the floor â Epstein files/DOJ
Charles and William have had more than enough of Andrewâs endless scandals.
The never-ending stream of damaging revelations about former Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson has so enraged King Charles III and his heir Prince William that they reportedly brought forward Andrewâs move out of Royal Lodge by months.
The disgraced former Duke of York was reportedly sneaked out of the 30-room mansion in the dead of the night.
Andrew was reportedly âdispatched by car to the depths of Norfolkâ a week ago amid the Epstein scandal.
Night William and Charles tore down house of York – and Andrew's final humiliation: How he was ejected at midnight from his house, Fergie smuggled out and the new 'body blow' for Eugenie and Beatrice revealed https://t.co/claZVZeI4q
ââIt was hastily arranged and done under the radar, leaving Royal Lodge staff to pack up what remains of Andrewâs belongingsâ, an insider told the outlet on Saturday of the move, which reportedly saw Andrew moving to temporary housing on Wood Farm at Sandringham in Norfolk.
[âŠ] The decision was made by Prince William and King Charles on Sunday evening following an âurgent discussionâ at Sandringham.â
Andrew waves to a young woman from inside Epsteinâs townhouse in NY.
After he got uprooted from Royal Lodge in secret, Andrew waits on renovations on a permanent residence at the much smaller and more humble March Farm.
âThe BBC reported earlier this week that the former prince was seen in Windsor horseback riding on Monday near Royal Lodge, and caught by photographers waving at bystanders while driving away from Windsor Castle.
[âŠ] âAndrew is having difficulty acknowledging reality and it was increasingly causing concern at the Palace â both as a sign of his mental state and because it wouldnât play well with the public witnessing him still enjoying the trappings of royaltyâ.â
đšWOW. ANDREW WINDSOR BELIEVES "HE'S DONE NOTHING WRONG"
Epstein was not a solitary monster. He was a facilitator. A maĂźtre dâhĂŽtel of nothingness. He organized the banquet for elites who no longer hungered for anything except confirmation that the rules do not apply to them.
by Giulio Meotti
It feels like reading âThe Possibility of an Island” by Michel Houellebecq. If Balzac chronicled the rise and fall of the mercantile bourgeoisie, Houellebecq has become the cynical and disenchanted singer-the anatomist-of a West in dissolution and destined for a sort of perennial adolescence.
The novel tells of a sect that builds an isolated society around sexual hedonism, cloning, and the search for immortality. Epstein was familiar with the novel and recommended it, as a good student of transhumanism. Epstein was not just a reader of the book: he was its missed protagonist. He had an island; he wanted immortality through science and to clone himself through the girls he recruited. When the police knocked on his door, the novel was interrupted.
But the world Houellebecq describes has continued without him, and now we read the chronicle of that decaying world.
The Epstein scandal is not a matter of right or left: it is a âmatter of class,” as the English journalist Mary Harrington explains. It involves an upper class that speaks the same language, frequents the same salons and islands, uses the same jets, has the same offshore accounts, and above all, shares the same fear: that of being forced to live the life they have imposed on others. An elite that no longer believes in anything except its own perpetuation.
Bankers, lawyers, politicians, music and movie stars. And scientists, such as the great Stephen Hawking, but also Ehud Barak, the Israeli son of a kibbutz who ended up counting money at the top of Tel Avivâs most prestigious building, the Akirov Towers. There were also unexpected guests, such as Joanna Rubinstein, the Swedish director of the UN refugee agency (always watch out for humanitarians).
Gerard Baker, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, explains in todayâs London Times: âThey are a perfectly assembled representative sample of the elites who have exercised a decisive influence on our lives”. He is right.
The Epstein files contain many documents that could just be rumors and defamation. Anti-Semites see a Jewish conspiracy; Atlanticists see a Russian plot. And everyone else sees conspiracies within conspiracies, like a matryoshka doll. Drawing inspiration from Roman orgies, which accelerated the fall of Rome due to its decadence, some imagine Putin would have orchestrated Epsteinâs orgies to realize his dream: to annihilate the West. That is too much, even for the former KGB.
If I had to find a common thread in this sordid story, gossip and sexual abuse aside, it is the contempt for democracy. What Epsteinâs emails reveal is more than a scandal: it is the state of the Western world. A globalized aristocracy, without land or homeland, held together by money, sex, blackmail, and privilege, living above the law and suffrage-made of leaders who are nothing more than employees, docile intermediaries of a power that no longer needs them.
A world foreign to democracy, yet compromised up to its neck in the collapse of the West.
Now everyone is trying to turn the revelations into a scandal against their enemies. But it is clear that, at the level Epstein operated, political âparties” were not real. Epstein associated with the right as much as the left; Steve Bannon as Karp and Kathy Ruemmler, now at Goldman Sachs and a former advisor to Barack Obama. And then Trump and Clinton. There was also the former Norwegian Prime Minister ThorbjĂžrn Jagland, from the committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize. I think he is the most pathetic figure in the scandal.
An evening like that, neither Epstein nor Houellebecq could have organized.
Epstein was not a solitary monster. He was a facilitator. A maĂźtre dâhĂŽtel of nothingness. He organized the banquet for elites who no longer hungered for anything except confirmation that the rules do not apply to them. A nihilistic superclass of transnational kleptocrats whose acolytes-served by Epstein in this occult market that seems straight out of the intellectual hallucinations of â68 philosophers-operated, and still operate, at a level where political principles simply have no role, let alone moral or spiritual ones.
While those in Epsteinâs circle discussed cryogenics and artificial wombs, the rest of the West was filling up with another kind of flesh-that which arrives on immigration boats, with the blessing of many participants in the Epstein affair. European suburbs have become the mirror image of the Caribbean island: not an erotic paradise, but a hell of gang rapes, stabbings, and girls who can no longer walk alone at night.
There is no longer a distinction between paradise for the few and hell for everyone: it is just one large submerged continent. And there is a powerful group of people making this future a reality.
Meanwhile, Michel Houellebecq warns this week that, more than an island, our possibility is âcivil war”. When the definitive novel on the collapse of Western civilization is written, Little Saint James island must find a place in a special chapter. Houellebecq is right: after the island, only the possibility of war remains. And the one I fear most is the one the West has declared against itself.
As of February 2026, Spain is staring into the abyss. Nearly a century after the brutal 1936-1939 Civil War â where half a million died amid priest tortures, church burnings, rapes, and mass executions on both sides â the country is fracturing again.
The socialist Pedro SĂĄnchez and his far-left PSOE-Sumar coalition are pushing the nation toward chaos with unchecked corruption, radical ideology. And a reckless mass regularization of up to 500,000+ undocumented migrants.
The Spanish left never got over losing to Franco. That defeat festers like an open wound â a âbetrayed revolutionâ myth passed down generations. Now, every judicial probe into their scandals is screamed as âlawfareâ by the right-wing fascists, straight out of the pre-1936 playbook.
SĂĄnchezâs crew even exhumed Francoâs remains in a symbolic grave-robbing flex. Mirroring the leftâs historical corpse-desecration tactics.
Ideologically bankrupt since the USSRâs collapse, the Spanish left ditched Marxism for a toxic mash-up. Extreme environmentalism, cozying up to political Islam, open borders, blind backing for Palestine (with Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda DĂazâs face-twisting anti-Israel rants veering into outright antisemitism). Itâs radicalism for radicalismâs sake â a desperate bid to stay relevant and in power.
Santos CerdĂĄn (ex-PSOE organizational secretary) is indicted too. Supreme Court preliminary hearing set for February 12, 2026 â they must show up in person. Witness VĂctor de Aldama spilled on payoffs: âŹ400k to Ăbalos, âŹ200k to Koldo, more to others.
It gets personal: SĂĄnchezâs wife Begoña GĂłmez faces charges of influence peddling, corruption, and misuse of funds (probe extended to April 2026, possible jury trial). His brother David is hit with similar influence and malfeasance accusations. Multiple overlapping cases paint the SĂĄnchez regime as Europeâs most corrupt.
To cling to power amid judicial heat and a shaky parliament, SĂĄnchez consequently dropped a bombshell decree in January 2026: regularizing 500,000+ undocumented migrants (possibly more) who were in Spain before Dec. 31, 2025 â minimal residency proof, work permits from April onward.
Sold as âhumanitarianâ and economic boost for an aging population, critics (especially Vox) call it a massive pull factor that will overload services, strain budgets, and create de facto Islamic cultural zones. Spaniards are furious â feeling erased on their own soil.
Polarization is off the charts: verbal violence normalized, middle classes alienated, majority sensing decline and betrayal (echoing analyses like Military Strategy Magazine on civil war triggers). Vox surges as the anti-immigration, nationalist bulwark.
The ghosts of 1936 are stirring. A traumatized, idea-starved left radicalizes to survive â corruption, mass migration, historical revisionism. Spain shows every warning sign of crossing the point of no return.
Patriots, wake up. History doesnât repeat exactly â but nightmares do. The West watches as another European nation slides toward the flames.
Far-left anarchist terrorists are suspected of a string of apparently coordinated sabotage attacks on Italian railway lines amid the opening of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games.
An investigation was launched by the Bologna prosecutorâs office, in conjunction with the DIGOS, Italyâs anti-terrorism police force, on Sunday morning into apparent infrastructure sabotage attacks that damaged rail lines in Bologna and Pesaro, disrupting trains across Italy.
According to a report from Corriere della Sera, investigators are currently considering it likely that anarchists were behind the attacks; however, there have yet to be any arrests or suspects publicly identified.
Prosecutors said that they are not ruling out any angle, including the potential of terrorist motivations.
Broadcaster RAI reports that a makeshift incendiary device was used to burn cables along the Bologna-Venice line near the Castel Maggiore station. A similar device that failed to trigger was found by forensic police on a line heading towards Ancona.
Meanwhile, a cabin used to operate a switch on the Ancona-Rimini line was struck in an apparent arson attack, requiring the local fire brigade to intervene.
The apparent coordination of the attacks suggests that a single group was behind the sabotage.
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said, âIf it is confirmed that the disruption on the high-speed line is the result of a premeditated attack, on the first day of the Olympics, letâs just say that someone wants to harm Italy.â
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport said that it plans on seeking financial damages from the perpetrators, saying in a statement: âRegarding the synchronized sabotages of railway lines that took place yesterday that caused delays and inconvenience to thousands of passengers for whom an investigation for terrorism has been opened, the MIT specifies that, once those responsible have been identified, the ministry will submit a claim for compensation for the millions in damages perpetrated.
âA decisive action is ready to put an end to such actions of unacceptable gravity that only create inconvenience to millions of Italians.â
The attacks are reminiscent of a series of arson attacks on Franceâs high-speed railway network just before the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
The attack on Italyâs railways also came as thousands of leftists protested in Milan on Saturday against the Olympics, with some radical climate activists accusing the Games of being âunsustainableâ.
Two journalists have just embarked on the exercise of writing a âbiography,â or rather a damning pamphlet, against the writer Renaud Camus, on whom they intend to heap all the ignominy of having invented and popularised the phrase âthe great replacement.’â
But what crime is this when the expression is now swallowed and spat out by everyone, including and especially on the Left, by certain MPs and politicians who today make it a point of pride and a programme?
Olivier Faye and Gaspard Delhemmes, two journalists from Le Monde, which in itself speaks volumes for those familiar with the ideological background of this so-called leading newspaper, which has long since sold out to the most dishonest left-wing thinking, have set themselves the goal of writing the âbiographyâ of The Man Who Brought the Plague, according to the quasi-mythological title they have given to their latest opus.
Mythological, or rather mythomaniacal. The Renaud Camus of Faye and Delhemmes is above all a construction of these two men, who polish the figure of their detestation according to their needs and not according to the reality of their model. Renaud Camus does not hide. He hides nothing, revealing himself from top to bottom, with a concern for transparency so complete that it is almost unhealthy. He keeps a diary in which he records his thoughts, actions, joys, and sorrows every day. Reading this diary is like reading his heart. The honourable writer, now in his eighties, spends a considerable amount of time on Xâa new source of information for investigators. Camusâs concerns and outbursts of anger are all known and available online. But it is not this reality that interests the journalists at Le Monde, but what they can do with it to fuel their little media spectacle.
From the very first pages of the book, the tone is set, unsurprisingly. The drama opens with a reference to the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand, in which 51 people were killed by terrorist Brenton Tarrant. A pamphlet entitled The Great Replacement was later found in his home, in which Camus is not mentioned. This was enough to attribute the mass shooting to Camus, who abhors all forms of violence, perhaps one of the few things he has in common with a certain section of the Left. One would like to see the same media outlets be just as quick to establish murderous connections when a terrorist is found to have a copy of the Koran on his bookshelf.
Faithful to the masters of the philosophy of suspicion, the authorsâwho are merely their pale avatars of the 21st centuryâprefer to refute the background of the thinker they are studying by focusing on his childhood and youth, his fears and frustrations, rather than risking arguing on the merits.
Camus grew up in the small Parisian homosexual artistic milieu. He was a member of the Socialist Party but slipped to the âwrong side.â The Left does not allow him to have deserted its ranks without questioning the causes of such a shiftâif there was one.
Moving from the Left to the Right, as Marguerite Stern explains in her latest autobiographical essay, Les Rives contraires, is a forbidden crime. Camus is a writerâa real one, with a style that, as we have known since Proust, is âfor the writer as much as colour is for the painter, a question not of technique but of vision.â
Before reading his political prose, I discovered him through his delightful Demeures de lâesprit (Dwellings of the Mind), which hint at a man with a rich inner life and a lively mind, just like those masters, politicians, writers, and musicians whose homes he so loves to scrutinise.
Those who castigate him for having developed the concept of the âgreat replacementâ always forgetâunsurprisinglyâthat his thinking is primarily one of decadence and cultural resignation, that is to say, that the âsmall replacementâ always precedes and makes possible the âgreat replacement.â It is when he describes the multiple collapses of our French and Western civilisation that he truly touches on geniusâthis is what makes him so demanding, even in the eyes of some of the so-called âreactionaryâ youth who reduce him to his loudmouth side and politically incorrect icon but are only willing to hear part of his poignant warning message. He alone knows how to put into words the tragedies that the disappearance of formal dress, the ease of language, and the daily choice of material mediocrity bring to the country that so many of these young people imagine they want to save. But the subtlety of this thought is completely lost on Delhemmes and Faye.
Behind The Man Who Brought the Plague lies a surprising paradox. The journalists of Le Monde, imbued with the moral authority of their media pedigree, make Camus the intellectual mentor of hundreds of thousands of people in France and around the worldâeven though they observe that very few people have read him and still read him.
What makes the concept work so well is not the sprawling moral authority that Camus exercises from behind the thick walls of his Gascon fortress, but simply that he very accurately describes what millions of French people see every day. The hallmark of great writers is to put into carefully chosen words what the vulgum pecus feel only vaguelyâbut recognise immediately when it is clearly stated.
The Welsh Government has invested more than ÂŁ1.2million in a virtual reality educational platform designed to lecture students about ‘white privilege’ | METAVERSE HUB
The Welsh Government has invested more than ÂŁ1.2million in a virtual reality educational platform designed to lecture students about “white privilege”.
Described as the “world’s first anti-racist virtual world,” the immersive 3D environment has been deployed in colleges across Wales for pupils aged 16 and above since 2024.
Students navigate through a digital space featuring a central atrium decorated with portraits of civil rights figures, including Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela and Betty Campbell.
The platform contains interactive lessons covering “black feminism” and “decolonising politics,” with one section examining “sociology through an anti-racist lens.”
It also explores how âwhitenessâ manifests in language, policies and research, and how privilege affects social, educational and workplace settings.
Among the key terms students are encouraged to learn are “patriarchy” and “imperialism,” alongside the concept of “white privilege”, which the platform defines as “inherent advantages possessed by a white person, which means that during their day-to-day life, they do not have to consider their race.”
One room in the metaverse platform is devoted to a âworld timelineâ, designed to teach pupils about colonialism and the intertwined histories of Europe, Africa and India.
Within the India section, the Bengal famine of 1770 is explicitly compared to the Holocaust.
âAlthough partly down to weather conditions and droughts, most historians agree that the vast loss of life was directly down to the policies of the British,â a narrator states.
âDuring the famine of 1770 the agricultural tax was increased from 10 per cent under the Mughals to 50 per cent under the British East India Company, leading to the loss of 10 million lives in Bengal, equivalent to the Black Death in Europe or the Holocaust,â the platform preaches.
The metaverse also presents various strands of feminist thought, including psychoanalytical feminism, a 1970s theory which draws on the work of Sigmund Freud.
The platform describes this as a “theory of oppression that asserts that men have an inherent psychological need to subjugate women.”
It adds: “This branch of feminism seeks to gain insight into how our psychic lives develop in order to better understand and change women’s oppression.”
The curriculum further contends that feminism remains insufficiently taught in schools, attributing this partly to patriarchal influence over conventional education.
The platform had labelled a campaign leaflet by former Wales Secretary David TC Davies as an example of “dog whistling” over his calls for greater consultation on traveller site developments.
References to Mr Davies were subsequently removed following media enquiries, reported The Telegraph.
A billboard in the space presents as ‘part of a collaborative campaign to prevent Jimmy Carr performing in Wales’ | METAVERSE HUB
Elsewhere in the virtual space, a billboard shows a leaflet circulated in 2022 as âpart of a collaborative campaign to prevent Jimmy Carr performing in Walesâ, following controversy over anti-gypsy remarks in one of his Netflix shows.
The initiative forms part of Wales’s broader anti-racist action plan, unveiled in 2022, which aims to make the nation the world’s first anti-racist country by 2030.
An official report underpinning the strategy identified “deeply rooted racial inequalities experienced by black, Asian and minority ethnic people in Wales”.
It stated that “ethnic minority people are disproportionately disadvantaged at nearly every level of every system.”
Conservative Party chairman Kevin Hollinrake condemned the project, describing the use of political campaign material within the platform as “outrageous” and tantamount to accusing MPs of racism.
He said: “Hard-pressed Welsh taxpayers will be disgusted to know that Welsh Labour are spending their cash on this kind of nonsense.
“It is also outrageous that the Welsh Government is using state funding to support attacks on other parties’ MPs, accusing them of racism just for standing up for their constituents.”
Mr Hollinrake declared that the “woke metaverse” demonstrated Welsh Labour was “living in a virtual reality.”
The Welsh Government defended its investment, with a spokesman stating: “We have invested ÂŁ1.2m in the further education curriculum for anti-racism since 2022.
“This pioneering project has delivered overwhelmingly positive outcomes and reflects our commitments to an anti-racist Wales, as well as reflecting similar offers within English institutions.”
