Spare us Europe’s World Cup hypocrisy
Europe has come up with a way to hit back at Donald Trump. What began last week as a suggestion…
English protestors in Calais are the left’s useful idiots
Two British men were arrested by French police in Calais on Sunday night. In a statement the Pas-de-Calais prefecture said…
The EU vs the farmers
It was a weekend of mixed emotions for the European Union. There was the news from Donald Trump that he…
Trump sees the EU for the bully it is
There has always been a touch of the actor about Emmanuel Macron, and the President of France was at his…
How Macron’s ‘macho’ act fell apart
On Sunday, Emmanuel Macron was urging his fellow Europeans to use a ‘bazooka’ against Donald Trump in response to his…
Marine Le Pen is unstoppable
Marine Le Pen returned to court this week to contest her conviction last spring for misusing EU funds. Convicted of…
Is Steve Bannon right about Jordan Bardella?
Marine Le Pen returned to a court in Paris on Tuesday as her appeal began against her five-year ban from…
TikToks won’t stop illegal migration
The Labour government may not like X these days but they have turned to another social media platform in their…
Was Maduro’s capture the greatest special forces raid in history?
On this occasion no one can accuse Donald Trump of hyperbole. The President praised the Delta Force team that seized…
Britain has lost faith in Labour’s ability to ‘smash the gangs’
More than 41,000 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats in 2025, a number surpassed only by the 45,000 who…
Will bromance bloom between Trump and Jordan Bardella?
Life has never been so good for Jordan Bardella, the 30-year-old president of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. A recent…
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…
