Two weeks in, Gabriel Attal is already fighting fires
Gabriel Attal has only been in his job for two weeks but the youngest prime minister in the history of…
France’s protesting farmers have spooked Emmanuel Macron
The farmers of France are mobilising. Their anger will be an early test for Gabriel Attal; the countryside is unknown…
Katharine Birbalsingh and France’s own secularism battle
The row that has erupted at Katharine Birbalsingh’s Michaela school in north London highlights the difference in how Britain and…
Is Emmanuel Macron secretly hoping for a Trump victory?
The great and the good of this world met in Davos this week to tell each other how wonderful they…
Macron governs Paris but Le Pen rules France
There has never been a more Parisian government than the one selected by Emmanuel Macron last week. Ten of its…
How the World Economic Forum’s ‘Young Global Leaders’ find their way to the top
The French found out on Thursday evening that, under their new prime minister, nothing will change in the way their…
Gabriel Attal and the unstoppable rise of Klaus Schwab’s ‘global leaders’
The French found out on Thursday evening that, under their new prime minister, nothing will change in the way their…
France is suffering from Brexit derangement syndrome
The French media has been busy marking the third anniversary of Britain’s official departure from the EU by gleefully reporting…
Can Macron’s ‘Brutus’ PM stop Le Pen?
Emmanuel Macron has begun the new year by replacing one Socialist prime minister with another. Out goes Elisabeth Borne and…
The hypocrisy of France’s feminist movement
A cultural war has erupted in France over the iconic figure of Gérard Depardieu. The 75-year-old actor is considered one…
Why Europe’s centrists are terrified of 2024
New Year’s Eve passed off peacefully in France give or take the odd incident. There were 211 arrests in total,…
The EU isn’t serious about tackling the migrant crisis
Robert Jenrick is right: the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum is ‘not worth the paper it’s written on’.…
The slow death of Macron’s political dream
Where did it all go wrong for Emmanuel Macron? In his New Year’s Eve address of 2022, France’s president called…
Macron has been humiliated by Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen celebrated what she called ‘an ideological victory’ on Tuesday evening after Emmanuel Macron’s government finally had its…
Why is the French left so willing to excuse Hamas apologists?
One hopes that the arrest of seven suspected members of Hamas last Thursday by European police has embarrassed numerous politicians…
Why won’t Macron agree to an immigration referendum?
It is a peculiarity of the age in France that the subject that most divides the political class is the…
The ECHR has become a danger to Europe
Rishi Sunak will never stop the boats, just as Giorgia Meloni won’t nor Emmanuel Macron, not that the president of…
Macron suffers a ‘stunning’ setback over his immigration crackdown
Emmanuel Macron refused to accept the resignation of his interior minister on Monday evening after the government’s immigration bill was…
Does Macron want to make France more multicultural?
Emmanuel Macron will address France in the coming weeks in what is being billed as a ‘Message of Unity’ speech.…
Is terrorism really a mental health problem?
When news first broke of the terrorist attack last Saturday in Paris, the French government rushed out a statement describing…
France isn’t buying Macron’s excuses after the Eiffel Tower terror attack
There was more bloodshed in Paris this weekend, this time involving a man who, prosecutors claim, had pledged allegiance to the…
Hell is the 2024 Paris Olympics
The motto for the 2024 Paris Olympics is ‘Games Wide Open’, which as far as irony goes is worthy of…
The EU is in denial about stopping the boats
The Global Alliance to Counter Migrant Smuggling is the latest EU initiative to address the continent’s migrant crisis. Unveiled in…
Macron’s France is trapped in a cycle of violence
On Monday, the spokesman for Emmanuel Macron’s government, Olivier Véran, visited the village of Crépol in south-eastern France. A fortnight…
The EU has only itself to blame for Geert Wilders
On the same day that the Dutch went to the polls my teenage daughter went to Strasbourg on a school…
