How Generation X turned Britain barking mad
What have the following got in common? David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Liz Truss, Nicola Sturgeon, Matt Hancock, Sadiq Khan, Angela…
How Qatar uses its wealth to challenge western values
The French have adopted a ‘when in Rome’ approach to the World Cup in Qatar, refraining from virtue-signalling their disapproval…
Emmanuel Macron shies away from confronting the migrant crisis
On the Sunday that Britain honoured its war dead, France remembered its fallen from the terrible evening of 13 November,…
Why Macron won’t criticise the Qatar World Cup
France has adopted a different approach to the World Cup in Qatar than most of its European rivals. While the…
Only the EU can solve the Channel migrants crisis
Rishi Sunak’s remarks about curbing illegal Channel immigration are certainly bullish, but whether he translates words into action will make…
Macron won’t fix the migrant crisis
Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron met on the fringes of Cop27 in Egypt on Monday and the Prime Minister emerged…
How the Albanian mafia corrupted Europe
In May 2000 a French newspaper published an article which declared that ‘The Albanian mafia is corrupting Europe’. Le Parisien reported on…
Will the Tories copy Le Pen?
In the three years since its landslide victory in the 2019 election, the Conservative party has shed nearly seven million…
Why shouldn’t Macron meet Meloni?
One in four Italians who voted at last month’s election backed Giorgia Meloni’s conservative Brothers of Italy party – that is 7,302,517…
Why is Macron’s foreign policy such a mess?
Last Sunday I marched through Paris with tens of thousands of disgruntled Frenchmen and women. I was there to observe,…
Emmanuel Macron is facing a perfect storm
Contrary to popular myth, on the English side of the Channel, at least, the French can queue. Across the country…
Britain’s shameful appeasement of Iran
France took some flak from Britain earlier this year for its perceived reluctance to rally to Ukraine after Russia’s invasion.…
This is Iran’s George Floyd moment but where is the West?
George Floyd was a 46-year-old petty criminal from Minneapolis who died on 25 May 2020 after a police officer knelt…
France’s centrists look petty after their charity football boycott
There should be a charity football match this evening in Paris between a team of MPs and an XI made…
Why the European right is gaining ground
Last month the new Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, shared online a brief video of a Ukrainian woman being…
Only Britain can save France from German domination
Are Britain and France at the dawn of a new Entente Cordiale? It’s reported that France will be the destination…
Marine Le Pen wants France to become the next Sweden
While Emmanuel Macron spent Sunday in London honouring the memory of the late Queen Elizabeth, Marine Le Pen marked her…
The inconvenient truth about France’s forest fires
Montpellier Last month the Prime Minister of France, Elisabeth Borne, visited the south-west of the country to offer her support…
Zemmour is his own worst enemy
Eric Zemmour is back. The bogeyman of French politics spent the summer licking his wounds after his far-right Reconquest party…
Why are some French mayors refusing to honour the Queen?
Why, asked a French mayor at the weekend, has he been ordered to fly his town’s flag at half-mast for…
Macron is blaming Putin for his own net zero folly
France is at war again, or as good as, according to Emmanuel Manuel’s recent rhetoric. This time the enemy is…
Will Marine Le Pen betray her voters the way Boris did?
How do you solve a problem like Jean-Marie? That is dilemma facing Marine Le Pen as her National Rally party…
British bobbies have much to learn from French police officers
Priti Patel wants the police to get back to basics and solve crime instead of parading their progressive credentials at…
Are the French willing to pay Macron’s price?
The age of abundance is over, declared Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, which must have come as news to the 14…
Europe’s new migrant crisis
Earlier this month I spent a week in Sicily, driving south from Palermo to Agrigento and then east to Syracuse…
