Did Brexit save Britain from France’s fate?
Stéphane Rozès, the author of a book entitled ‘Chaos’, was on French radio this week receiving congratulations for being a…
Is Macron heading for his Margaret Thatcher moment?
There was a sense of foreboding in France at the start of this week. After the anarchy of last Thursday…
Why Macron cancelled the King
Many on the French left were in buoyant mood on Friday after the success of the previous day. They claimed…
France is on a knife edge
Thursday was a day of anarchy in France. In Lorient a police station was attacked, in Bordeaux a town hall…
Has Emmanuel Macron become France’s ‘Caligula’?
The government of Emmanuel Macron won a vote of no confidence in the National Assembly on Monday by a mere…
Why Macron doesn’t fear the Parisian street protests
France is on the brink of another revolution! The proles are swarming to the barricades and it’s only a matter…
Paris is stinking
They say Spring is a magical time to visit Paris but perhaps not this year. It’s not so much love…
How Albania’s mafia took control of Europe’s trafficking network
America must get tough against the Mexican drug cartels, former US Attorney General, William Barr, declared earlier this month. Likening them…
Sunak needs more than Macron’s help to crack the Channel crisis
There was more than a whiff of ‘bromance’ between Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron when they met at the Anglo-French…
Can Macron get through the day without insulting the Brits?
The editorial in today’s Le Figaro heralds the dawn of a 21st century Entente Cordiale and the newspaper carries an interview…
Failing to stop the Channel crisis will cost Rishi Sunak his job
Finding an effective solution to Europe’s migrant crisis has eluded the continent’s leaders for a decade. Presidents, prime ministers and…
How much longer will MI5 cloak its incompetence in secrecy?
The incompetence of MI5 in failing to prevent Salman Abedi detonating his bomb at the Manchester Arena in 2017 beggars…
Elly Schlein shouldn’t be a problem for Georgia Meloni
There is much excitement among western Europe’s chattering classes after Elly Schlein was elected the new leader of Italy’s left-wing…
How Putin is fomenting Europe’s migrant crisis
‘Watch the Sahel,’ warned Tony Blair in an article marking the first year of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Because of…
Was Jean Raspail racist?
Fifty years ago, one of the most controversial books of the late 20th century was published. Camp of the Saints…
Macron is unwise to snub Meloni over Europe’s migrant crisis
Emmanuel Macron and Giorgia Meloni are no strangers to having a spat. The first was last autumn, about migrants; this…
What UEFA won’t tell you about the Stade de France fiasco
UEFA has published its independent review into the chaotic Champions League final last May and it is brutally honest in…
Has Macron turned France into America’s poodle?
A notable feature of how the French public view the war in Ukraine is that the strongest support for its…
Europe has lost control of the migrant crisis
Piers Morgan brought out the bulldog in Rishi Sunak during their interview on Thursday evening. ‘If you come here illegally…
The French have rejected Macron’s love for the EU
Another 1.2 million people took to the streets in France yesterday to protest against Emmanuel Macron’s plan to push back…
Europe’s leaders are failing in their duty to keep people safe
Life in Europe is becoming increasingly precarious; a case of hoping it’s not your turn to be in the wrong…
How did this killer asylum seeker hoodwink the authorities?
In 2018, a 16-year-old boy called Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai shot dead two men in Serbia with a burst of eighteen bullets…
How Marine Le Pen became the voice of France’s red wall
It sums ups the sorry state of the Socialist party in France that they can’t even elect a new leader.…
Macron commits to nuclear energy while Britain dithers
The French are falling back in love with nuclear energy, and so is their president. In 2019, only 34 per…
Terror has become banal in Macron’s France
The mother of my daughter was at the Gare du Nord on Wednesday morning when a man ran amok with…
