Can France dismantle the NGO-migrant complex?
France’s interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, and his party Les Républicains (LR) are moving to end the decades-long monopoly on providing legal…
Why is Macron courting the Freemasons?
Emmanuel Macron turned this week to France’s shadowy Freemasons for support. In a speech delivered to the secretive Grande Loge…
France is quietly tightening its citizenship rules
Bruno Retailleau, the hardline French Minister of the Interior, has issued a confidential circular to regional prefects with a simple…
Was this right-wing TV host joking about taking on Marine Le Pen?
A controversial and wildly popular right-wing television star says that he orchestrated a ‘prank’ that he was about to jump…
Medical migration is crippling France’s healthcare system
Doctors are sounding the alarm. Across France patients are unable to get appointments and wait times in hospital emergency departments…
The African cardinal who terrifies Macron
Cardinal Robert Sarah from Guinea in West Africa has been named among the potential successors to Pope Francis and the…
Pet theft in France is out of control
Dog theft in France is soaring. Animal protection groups estimate that up to 70,000 dogs are stolen each year –…
Donald Trump is taking on China in Africa
Donald Trump has opened a new front in his trade war with China, deploying a family confidant to Kinshasa to…
Should Marine Le Pen step down?
It was a rally for Marine Le Pen billed as a rendez-vous historique. In the end, barely a few thousand…
Could France’s GB News be shut down?
France’s media regulator, Arcom, has been asked to investigate the right-leaning news channel CNews over its coverage of Marine Le…
Marine Le Pen is in a race against the clock
Marine Le Pen is fighting back, launching an all-out counterattack against a Paris court’s decision to suspend her from politics.…
The hypocrisy behind Le Pen’s disqualification
‘Every single political group, every single national delegation, has violated the same rule that Ms. Le Pen did – the employment…
This ruling against Marine Le Pen is grotesque
Marine Le Pen has been knocked out of the presidential race and disqualified from standing for public office after she…
Why does Britain think it can censor Gab?
A dramatic escalation has happened in the information war between the US and Europe. Ofcom, the British media regulator that…
Democrats should be concerned by the Le Pen affair
Marine Le Pen, the frontrunner for the 2027 French presidency, could be sent to prison and banned from office as…
France’s churches are burning – and no one seems to care
France’s churches are under attack, yet the media and political establishment are pretending not to notice. Last year, we saw…
Keir Starmer’s flimsy excuse for the Chagos deal
The government has defended its controversial decision to relinquish control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius with an excuse so…
Diplomacy alone won’t stop Rwanda stoking war in Congo
Goma, a city of 1.5 million in Eastern Congo, has fallen to the M23 rebels, openly backed by Rwanda. Foreign…
Why the French left are in uproar about the census
France’s 2025 census has ignited a predictable but exhausting row. The controversy centres on a seemingly innocuous question: ‘Where were…
Why the French state fears Elon Musk
The French government on Wednesday declared war on X and on Elon Musk, directly threatening to ban the platform. Speaking…
The EU wants to cripple French farmers
Another year, another protest. French farmers are at it again. France’s Coordination Rurale trade union is calling for another round of massive…
The crisis gripping France’s Le Monde newspaper
Once one of France’s most respected publications, Le Monde is in crisis. Its newsroom is gripped by a climate of fear, where…
How identity politics corrupted France’s elite schools
Earlier this year, Sciences Po’s feminist association, Décollectif Féministe, organised a ‘non-mixed’ meeting, which explicitly excluded men and white attendees. Intended as a…
The West’s green agenda is abandoning Africa to China
In the remote Ludewa district of southern Tanzania, villagers scratch out a meagre living in harsh conditions. The roads are…
Hell is driving in Paris
The latest move in Anne Hidalgo’s war on cars has left Paris motorists teetering on the edge of despair. Last…
