The culture wars are coming to France
The infection of France by le wokisme continues apace. Last year, president Emmanuel Macron vowed to stand against intersectionality only…
Liberté, égalité, nudité: France’s new sexual politics
France’s new sexual politics
Why Ryanair is the best airline
Why Ryanair is Europe’s best airline
Macron's state of denial
Crisis? What crisis? Emmanuel Macron emerged from his bunker tonight to speak to France for the first time since his…
Macron's nightmare is complete
French president Emmanuel Macron has been humiliated by voters, weeks after being re-elected by an unenthusiastic electorate. The hyper-president with…
Could Macron lose his majority?
Last night was a poor one for the President. His Ensemble coalition appear neck and neck with La Nouvelle Union Populaire Écologique…
Macron vs the deep state
French diplomats are on strike today. But will anyone notice? Not to be immodest, I am especially well qualified to…
The madness of France’s burkini bust-up
To burkini, or not to burkini? This is the question that divides France in the run-up to the first round…
France's new prime minister will never overshadow Macron
Meet Élisabeth Borne, the new prime minister of France. Borne has hardly worked a day in the private sector. She…
The French right is hopelessly divided
Here we go again. Exhausted by a presidential campaign that ultimately produced the same choice as in 2017 (and the…
How Duterte Harry’s legacy of terror lives on in the Philippines
Something momentous is building in the Philippines. Thirty-six years after the kleptocratic despot, Ferdinand Marcos, fled into exile with his…
Can anyone stop Emmanuel Macron?
If they weren’t insufficiently weary of politicians, the French will be invited to vote all over again for the Assemblée…
The French have voted for the lesser of two evils
Few scenes of jubilation as Emmanuel Macron was re-elected President. French voters held their noses and voted without evident enthusiasm…
Is this the end of Marine Le Pen?
Today’s election in France is likely to be a joyless, miserable affair for the electors who will dutifully turn out.…
Narcissist vs fantasist: France’s gruesome choice
France faces a gruesome choice
Macron vs Le Pen debate: le verdict
Who won Wednesday night’s debate between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen depends on who is doing the scoring. In…
French election: Macron has been weakened
The polls have closed in France and projections show President Macron on 28.5 per cent with the rightist Marine Le Pen…
The mysteries and rituals of French democracy
Montpellier I have never voted in an election for president of France, not being French. But as a councillor in…
Why Macron's poll lead is dwindling
With eight days to go before the first round of voting in the French presidential election, Emmanuel Macron has just…
'McKinseygate' won't bring down Macron
We are in the final stretch before the first round of voting in the French presidential election on 10 April…
The Macron Paradox
With just 24 days to go before the first round of French presidential voting, the political landscape has become borderline surreal,…
Macron appears unassailable
Emmanuel Macron, the President of France for whom few voters have expressed much affection, is suddenly the leader of a…
Macron’s posturing as a global statesman will get him re-elected
It is bordering on tasteless amidst the horror of war in Europe to question the political impact of the conflict…
Macron’s diplomatic failure in Russia was still a political success
President Emmanuel Macron may or may not have imagined that his mission to Moscow would head off armed conflict in…
Is President Macron’s re-election as safe as it looks?
In February 1995, Jacques Chirac was at 12 per cent in the polls. Two months later he was president. Two…
