This month, TikTok was briefly banned in the US, in a sabre-rattling move against China. But this backfired spectacularly, with millions of American users flooding onto RedNote, where they discussed class issues and communism with Chinese youth.

The European economy is facing its biggest crisis in a decade, with hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs at risk. European capitalism has entered into a steep decline, and will be unable to weather the geopolitical storms that surround it.

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where over a million Jews, Poles, Roma and communists were murdered by the Nazis. But today’s commemoration was tarnished by the hypocrisy of western imperialism.