French democracy is in trouble – and the EU is to blame
France’s airwaves have been crackling with indignation this week, as politicians wring their hands at the record abstention in the first…
How Les Bleus united France by not taking the knee
For those who lean to the right and live in France, Tuesday nightwas magnificent. Not only did LesBleus open their…
France is divided on ‘taking the knee’
Until this month ‘taking a knee’ has not been a French phenomenon. When the Black Lives Matter movement spilled out of…
France’s Covid stoicism has put Britain to shame
I feel like a teenager again. Tonight I’m allowed out until 11pm. What’s more, I’m permitted to go inside my…
Macron fiddles as France burns
In May 2017 Emmanuel Macron struck a regal pose as he strode across the esplanade of the Louvre to address…
The BBC’s shameful smearing of the French police
I had my first jab on Wednesday, at a vaccination centre in the south of Paris, run by the fire…
Why French soldiers are moving against Macron
Emmanuel Macron was in Strasbourg on Sunday where he addressed the Conference on the Future of Europe. This is where…
Is France losing its war on terror?
A political storm has swept France in recent days. It follows the publication of an open letter by twenty retired…
The banalisation of Islamist terror bodes badly for the West
Another day, another Islamist murder in France – this time, a 49-year-old policewoman fatally stabbed in the neck by a…
Starmer’s Labour is following the French Socialists into oblivion
Why does Keir Starmer seem set on following the example of the French Socialist party, and leading Labour into electoral…
Is the US to blame for the far-left takeover of France’s universities?
There is a belief in some quarters of the Anglosphere that the French are too wise to succumb to what…
Macron is using Islam to outmanoeuvre Le Pen
There was a rally in Paris on Sunday at which a couple of hundred protestors vented their anger at the…
The rise of Florian Philippot, France’s answer to Nigel Farage
These are dispiriting times for France. The 6pm curfew and the closure of bistros and theatres have taken all the…
Europe’s cowardly response to terror
It says much about the endemic moral cowardice of Europe that Emmanuel Macron is being hailed as the saviour of…
France is under attack because of its culture, not its cartoons
Let us imagine for a moment that Emmanuel Macron takes the advice of many in the Anglophone world and bans…
Macron’s France is fearful and angry
On Thursday morning, I visited the cathedral at Reims. The central door on the north side is dedicated to Saint…
The empty rhetoric of ‘je suis Samuel’
The mother of my daughter didn’t attend yesterday’s rally in Paris to honour the memory of Samuel Paty, the teacher…
Macron’s fight with the far-left over extremism
Emmanuel Macron’s bold declaration last Friday that the Republic will eradicate Islamic extremism appeared to draw a swift response in…
Is Britain a nation in fear of safetyism?
It should come as no surprise that Britain’s city centres remain, in the words of CBI chief Carolyn Fairbairn, ‘ghost…
France is fighting a lone battle for free speech in the West
One of the most craven moments in the recent history of the British media was an interview Sky News conducted…
France has partly seen sense on face masks
I went for a long walk last night in Paris. I chuntered most of the way, only breaking off to…
World Rugby’s trans women ban is a wise idea
By the time I was 15, I had put two rugby players in hospital. I broke the arm of one…
Why face masks weren’t compulsory during WW2
Britain has been here before when it comes to furores about face masks. Exactly 80 years ago the same argument…
Churchill once challenged BBC intolerance
Winston Churchill: hero or villain? That was the question the BBC asked on its website on 10 June. It caused…
Britain could learn from France’s coronavirus approach
If there is a God, He’s not French. Last night I was on the balcony of my apartment in Paris…
