I’m ready to defend my Tesla from the mob
Occitanie, France In France, burning cars is practically a national sport. Almost 1,000 were set on fire on New Year’s…
What Jordan Bardella is doing in Israel
In September 1987, during a radio interview with RTL, the late Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French National Front,…
The licence fee is at the root of the BBC’s problems
The BBC’s reputation is in shreds – again. Its Hamas propaganda film, Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, had to be withdrawn after it…
More booze won’t save France’s dying village life
Reach for the pastis, Jacques. A law is making its way through the French parliament to relax alcohol licensing, to…
Donald Trump humiliated Emmanuel Macron
The orca killer whale is known for playing with its prey before killing it, always with a smile. An image…
Jean-Marie Le Pen won’t be missed
Perhaps it’s tasteless to make the point that maybe nobody will be happier to see Jean-Marie Le Pen buried than…
Macron is the author of his own despair
‘Notre-Dame has been restored to its full level of glory, and even more so,’ said the President-elect Donald J. Trump…
Michel Barnier has brought France to the verge of collapse
A new Anglo-Saxon barbarism has entered the French political language: ‘government shutdown.’ There is excited talk of civil servants not…
Keir Starmer’s pointless meeting with Emmanuel Macron
It’s extremely difficult to imagine that today’s meeting between Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron produced anything substantive beyond a photo opportunity…
SpaceX has put Europe to shame
The flawless launch of SpaceX’s 5,000-ton Starship and its Super Heavy Booster, and the precision recovery of the booster on…
France is finally opting for austerity
After the binge, the bill? The new French government of Michel Barnier presented the main lines of its proposed 2025…
Michel Barnier’s government in name only
A trillion here and a trillion there and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. Of course, France now owes…
Why French students want English uniforms
Béziers, France The École Mairan in Béziers in southern France is a happy neighbourhood elementary school housed in a superb…
Marine Le Pen looks unstoppable
Overlook for the moment the shenanigans surrounding French prime minister Michel Barnier’s attempt to cobble together a new government. One…
It’s a pity Thierry Breton didn’t resign sooner
The spectacular resignation of Thierry Breton from the European Commission suggests that the president of the European Commission Ursula von…
Marine Le Pen is crucial to Michel Barnier’s survival
Michel Barnier, the OAP appointed yesterday as Prime Minister of France, is a sensible fellow, even if at 73 he…
Macron’s search for a prime minster is a complete farce
Who will be the next prime minister of France? Almost two months after the centre lost its majority in the National…
French politics has become an absurdist farce
It’s the rentrée politique this week in France, the start of the political year, a bit earlier than normal. It promises to be…
Imane Khelif’s laughable lawsuit against J.K. Rowling
Popcorn not being the traditional French treat to celebrate an entertaining spectacle, break out the caramel au beurre salé. J.K.…
France’s view on the British riots is stunningly hypocritical
As the Olympics draw to a close tonight, two things have delighted the French. The first is that the Games turned…
The cult of Bedales
Another of my ageing Bedales school cohort has died and so there’s an ad hoc reunion in his honour at…
Macron’s Olympic delusion
All the world’s a stage and the Olympic Games in Paris is the greatest stage of all for the comedian president. Emmanuel…
Macron is looking increasingly desperate
President Emmanuel Macron finally broke his silence and rediscovered the magical breath of his ‘baraka’ as he took to the…
Emmanuel Macron is cornered
They’re playing with a Rubik’s Cube in Paris trying to cobble together a government. An Italian-job technocratic government? A national government…
Le Pen is still the biggest winner in France’s elections
Ignore most snap verdicts from last night – the big winner in the French parliamentary election was still Marine Le…
