Starmer and Macron’s desperate bid for global relevance
Iran has declared that the Strait of Hormuz is ‘completely open’ in an announcement that has been welcomed by Donald…
Europe must play the small boat people smugglers at their own game
Belgium is becoming the new point of departure for the gangs who traffic migrants across the Channel to England. It…
France’s migration hypocrisy
Four migrants drowned in the Channel yesterday when they were swept away by strong currents. The two men and two…
Britain should brace itself for a small boat surge
According to a report in the French press today, the border between France and the United Kingdom is ‘at risk…
Old France defies the far-left – but for how much longer?
The left achieved a rare success in Paris on Sunday with the victory of Emmanuel Grégoire in the capital’s mayoral…
Marine Le Pen’s rise seems unstoppable
The first round of voting in France’s municipal elections has laid bare the country’s deep fractures. In a turnout of…
Labour’s lawfare has broken British army morale
A French soldier was killed on Thursday evening in the Erbil region of Iraq. In announcing the death of chief…
Revenge of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys
French President Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating rose by six points last week. It will likely continue to climb following his…
Americans are erasing European culture
Did Mariah Carey mime or not when she headlined the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan? That was…
Emmanuel Macron is having a good war
It is not just Donald Trump who believes Keir Starmer has failed to channel Winston Churchill. Now Cyprus have given…
Does Labour have the stomach for Mahmood’s asylum policy?
As of Monday, migrants arriving in Britain no longer have the right to claim permanent asylum. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood…
Why Europe is terrified of standing up to Iran
America’s war on Iran has revealed much about its allies. Israel is as steadfast as ever, as secretary of war…
British politics is turning French
An editorial in Friday’s Le Figaro (France’s equivalent to the New York Times) is headlined “Mélenchon or the moral suicide…
The killing that has divided Washington and Paris
Washington’s warning last week about the spread of far-left violence in France did not go down well in Paris. In…
France can no longer ignore the menace of left-wing violence
Police in France arrested nine people on Tuesday evening in connection with the death of a 23-year-old student in Lyon…
Epstein has brought down France’s Peter Mandelson
The news in France over the weekend was dominated by the resignation of Jack Lang as head of the prestigious…
France has a nasty case of Trump Derangement Syndrome
The French IT giant Capgemini has put its US subsidiary on sale because of its association with the work of…
Why Macron has declared war on X
Investigators from the Paris prosecutor’s cyber-crime unit raided the offices of X in the French capital on Tuesday in what…
Spare us Europe’s World Cup hypocrisy
Europe has come up with a way to hit back at Donald Trump. What began last week as a suggestion…
English protestors in Calais are the left’s useful idiots
Two British men were arrested by French police in Calais on Sunday night. In a statement the Pas-de-Calais prefecture said…
The EU vs the farmers
It was a weekend of mixed emotions for the European Union. There was the news from Donald Trump that he…
Trump sees the EU for the bully it is
There has always been a touch of the actor about Emmanuel Macron, and the President of France was at his…
How Macron’s ‘macho’ act fell apart
On Sunday, Emmanuel Macron was urging his fellow Europeans to use a ‘bazooka’ against Donald Trump in response to his…
Marine Le Pen is unstoppable
Marine Le Pen returned to court this week to contest her conviction last spring for misusing EU funds. Convicted of…
Is Steve Bannon right about Jordan Bardella?
Marine Le Pen returned to a court in Paris on Tuesday as her appeal began against her five-year ban from…
