Stopping the boats will be harder than Jordan Bardella thinks
France’s Jordan Bardella has promised to stop the boats. Now where have we heard that before? The president of Marine…
Bardella and Le Pen are closer to power than ever before
The 20 days that Nicolas Sarkozy recently spent behind bars have been turned into a book published today. The 70-year-old…
Yes, Europe’s civilization is being erased
Last week the Trump administration expressed its fear that Europe faces “civilizational erasure.” Its concern was articulated in a 33-page…
David Lammy is wrong about Brexit and the EU
David Lammy believes Britain should rejoin the EU customs union to boost economic growth. In an interview on Thursday, the…
Why the prospect of peace in Ukraine is troubling Macron
Emmanuel Macron welcomed Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to Paris this morning to discuss ‘the conditions for a just and lasting…
Are America’s women heading for the exit?
Life is apparently so disagreeable in Donald Trump’s America that 40 percent of women aged between 15 and 44 want…
France’s military service rollout is about more than Russia
National service is being brought back in France. Emmanuel Macron used a visit to a military base in the Alps…
Did the Louvre robbers want to get caught?
It is more than a month since thieves stole the crown jewels from the Louvre and the chances of recovering…
A decade after Bataclan, France is more divided than ever
Ten years ago today, Islamist terrorists massacred 130 people in a coordinated attack across Paris. It was the heaviest loss…
Night-time air patrols won’t stop small boat crossings
The government has deployed two aircraft to the Channel to detect and monitor small boats crossing under the cover of…
Jordan Bardella: the right-wing Mamdani?
There was a time when the French left turned its nose up at all things American. Too low-brow for them.…
Is it only left-wing leaders who are allowed to be young?
There was a time when the French left turned its nose up at all things American. Too low-brow for them.…
The Ile d’Oléron attack and Islamism’s ceaseless menace
A man shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ drove his car into a crowd on France’s Ile d’Oléron this morning. At least ten…
France is in the grip of a heist epidemic
The good news for the French police is that three of the four people suspected of carrying off the ‘heist…
Brigitte Macron has lost France’s sympathy
Ten people have been on trial this week in Paris, accused of transphobic cyberbullying against Brigitte Macron. France’s first lady,…
Is DEI to blame for the Louvre heist?
Police in Paris have arrested two men after the “heist of the century” at the Louvre museum. According to the…
‘One in, one out’ is dead
France is not a safe country. That was the excuse given by an Iranian man who returned to Britain last…
France has failed its daughters
It is just over three years since a 12-year-old Parisian girl called Lola was raped and murdered in a crime…
Why the French are dreaming of a Donald Trump à la française
A year ago Donald J Trump was still roundly disliked by the French commentariat. Even the conservative Le Figaro newspaper held its…
Macron’s story has become a Shakespearean tragedy
This week has been a tale of two presidents. On the one hand there is Donald Trump, who has masterminded…
Sébastien Lecornu’s exit is a humiliation for France – and for Macron
In a sensational development, Sébastien Lecornu has resigned as prime minister of France. His departure, after 27 days in office,…
When will David Lammy learn that Nazi smears don’t work?
Is the Third Reich living rent-free in David Lammy’s head? Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister has accused Donald Trump of being a…
Macron is abandoning France’s Jews by recognising Palestine
France will today officially recognise the state of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In justifying…
Has France become ungovernable?
One million people protested in France yesterday. That was according to the trade unions, who organised the day of industrial…
Pope Leo is naive about Europe’s migrant crisis
Giorgia Meloni has not cracked Italy’s migrant crisis. On the contrary, the number of migrants crossing the central Mediterranean is…
