Terror has become banal in Macron’s France
The mother of my daughter was at the Gare du Nord on Wednesday morning when a man ran amok with…
France is losing patience with Macron
When the Sunday newspaper, Le Journal Du Dimanche, recently published its annual list of France’s fifty most popular personalities, politicians…
Rishi Sunak will fail his migrant mission – but it’s not his fault
Suella Braverman sparked a backlash last November when she described the number of small boats crossing the Channel as an…
Might Michel Houellebecq become the next Salman Rushdie?
In August this year Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times. The novelist survived the attack, to the outward relief of…
Hopeless and downbeat, Britain is the new France
‘Tis the season to be jolly, unless you live in Britain. An Ipsos poll last week suggested there is widespread…
Macron’s World Cup loss is nothing compared with the problems he faces in France
One can only feel for Kylian Mbappé. If scoring a hat-trick in a World Cup final but ending up on the…
Rogues Heroes: What Prince Harry has in common with the SAS’s founder
I’ve enjoyed the recent BBC blockbuster Rogue Heroes, a drama that is mercifully free from the moralising that Auntie often…
Hooligans aren’t alone in exploiting Morocco’s World Cup run
‘Let’s all get behind Les Bleus for victory!’ tweeted Emmanuel Macron shortly before France and Morocco met last night in…
Football won’t save France or Britain from decline
Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron rekindled their bromance on Saturday, swapping tweets prior to England’s World Cup quarter-final clash with…
Why not all the French love Mbappé like Macron
Emmanuel Macron is confident France will beat England in Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final. In an interview with a radio station,…
Why can’t we call Moroccan football thugs hooligans?
One of my most delightful sporting experiences was watching the 2018 World Cup match between England and Tunisia in a…
Unlike Britain, France is far from finished with Covid
Twelve months ago Britain rebelled against Covid hysteria. As Boris Johnson and his Sage modelling committee prepared to lockdown the…
How Generation X turned Britain barking mad
What have the following got in common? David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Liz Truss, Nicola Sturgeon, Matt Hancock, Sadiq Khan, Angela…
How Qatar uses its wealth to challenge western values
The French have adopted a ‘when in Rome’ approach to the World Cup in Qatar, refraining from virtue-signalling their disapproval…
Emmanuel Macron shies away from confronting the migrant crisis
On the Sunday that Britain honoured its war dead, France remembered its fallen from the terrible evening of 13 November,…
Why Macron won’t criticise the Qatar World Cup
France has adopted a different approach to the World Cup in Qatar than most of its European rivals. While the…
Only the EU can solve the Channel migrants crisis
Rishi Sunak’s remarks about curbing illegal Channel immigration are certainly bullish, but whether he translates words into action will make…
Macron won’t fix the migrant crisis
Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron met on the fringes of Cop27 in Egypt on Monday and the Prime Minister emerged…
How the Albanian mafia corrupted Europe
In May 2000 a French newspaper published an article which declared that ‘The Albanian mafia is corrupting Europe’. Le Parisien reported on…
Will the Tories copy Le Pen?
In the three years since its landslide victory in the 2019 election, the Conservative party has shed nearly seven million…
Why shouldn't Macron meet Meloni?
One in four Italians who voted at last month’s election backed Giorgia Meloni’s conservative Brothers of Italy party – that is 7,302,517…
Why is Macron's foreign policy such a mess?
Last Sunday I marched through Paris with tens of thousands of disgruntled Frenchmen and women. I was there to observe,…
Emmanuel Macron is facing a perfect storm
Contrary to popular myth, on the English side of the Channel, at least, the French can queue. Across the country…
Britain’s shameful appeasement of Iran
France took some flak from Britain earlier this year for its perceived reluctance to rally to Ukraine after Russia’s invasion.…
This is Iran’s George Floyd moment but where is the West?
George Floyd was a 46-year-old petty criminal from Minneapolis who died on 25 May 2020 after a police officer knelt…
