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…
The growing extremism of France’s eco warriors
In August 1999 a group of protestors demolished a McDonald’s restaurant under construction in Aveyron, southern France. Their leader was…
France's support of Rushdie puts Britain to shame
If any further evidence was needed of the moral cowardice of the British political class it has been provided in…
Did the SAS inspire Ukraine's Crimea raid?
If the reports are right and it was Ukrainian special forces who destroyed as many as 20 Russian aircraft at…
Is France capable of hosting next year's Olympics?
Five years ago, Paris was named the host city for the 2024 Olympics. How the country celebrated. No one more…
Why Macron would prefer Rishi Sunak as PM
France and Britain have been bickering again, this time about the chaos at the ferry ports over the weekend. The…
What Nigel Farage can learn from Marine Le Pen
It’s been five weeks since Marine Le Pen’s National Rally won 89 seats in the French parliamentary elections and thus…
What a tale of two political 'scandals' says about the French elite
Two of Emmanuel Macron’s ministers were rebuked last week for words they had spoken in the past, but only one…
Could the Tories suffer the same fate as the French right?
Here are some statistics that ought to send a shudder through Tory MPs. Between 1995 and 2012 the French centre-right…
The Tour de France conceals its national turmoil
The 109th edition of the Tour de France is underway although Friday’s first stage, held for the first time in…
Boris is falling into the Macron trap
You can’t blame Boris Johnson for jetting off to Kyiv last week for another meet-and-greet session with Volodymyr Zelensky. He…
How Marine Le Pen silenced her critics
‘Stillborn’ is how Le Figaro describes Emmanuel Macron’s presidency after his Renaissance party failed to win an absolute majority in…
France's Socialists have been punished for their intolerance
One of the more significant results from the first round of the French parliamentary elections on Sunday was in the…
The Queen is one Brit Macron can warm to
He may not have much respect forthe ‘Clown’, but when it comes to the Queen Emmanuel Macron is as smitten…
