How I got under Macron’s skin
The journalist Jonathan Miller, a cherished Spectator contributor, died last week at his home in Occitanie, France. Below is an…
The battle of the Channel has been fought – and lost
Kemi Badenoch says the Conservative party will take a look at withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR),…
It’s time to ban the caravan
The French government has banned smoking at the beach, a performative gesture for a government that’s incapable of doing anything…
Has King Charles gone doolally on his Canada trip?
I like King Charles. I visited him at Windsor Castle recently as Mrs Miller picked up a gong. The castle…
Marine Le Pen has got to go
It’s time for Marine Le Pen to quit and spend more time with her Bengal cats. More importantly, it’s time…
Brigitte and Emmanuel – an anatomy of a slap
Some are scandalised that Brigitte Macron was seen to slap her husband in the face as they prepared to disembark…
Could (bottled) Watergate sink Macron?
History repeats itself. In the beginning there was Watergate and then one gate followed another: Camillagate, Partygate, Monicagate. Hundreds, thousands…
French Guiana is the perfect place for a supermax prison
So that you don’t have to, I’ve conducted a reconnaissance of French Guiana where the French justice minister is to…
Who judges the judges?
I started out as a reporter covering the criminal and civil courts in Ohio. I got to read every piece of…
Bring on the Indian invasion
More Indians? Bring them on. The more the better. The prospect of a forthcoming tidal wave of immigration following Labour…
Jordan Bardella’s moment has arrived
It is time to take seriously the possibility that the next president of France will be Jordan Bardella. His star…
Trump, le Pen and the legal war on politics
A few days ago, Raphaël Glucksmann, a French Member of the European Parliament and co-president of the left-wing Place Publique…
Is France still a democracy?
Marine Le Pen has been declared ineligible to run for president of France. She has been given a suspended prison…
I’m ready to defend my Tesla from the mob
Occitanie, France In France, burning cars is practically a national sport. Almost 1,000 were set on fire on New Year’s…
What Jordan Bardella is doing in Israel
In September 1987, during a radio interview with RTL, the late Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French National Front,…
The licence fee is at the root of the BBC’s problems
The BBC’s reputation is in shreds – again. Its Hamas propaganda film, Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, had to be withdrawn after it…
More booze won’t save France’s dying village life
Reach for the pastis, Jacques. A law is making its way through the French parliament to relax alcohol licensing, to…
Donald Trump humiliated Emmanuel Macron
The orca killer whale is known for playing with its prey before killing it, always with a smile. An image…
Jean-Marie Le Pen won’t be missed
Perhaps it’s tasteless to make the point that maybe nobody will be happier to see Jean-Marie Le Pen buried than…
Macron is the author of his own despair
‘Notre-Dame has been restored to its full level of glory, and even more so,’ said the President-elect Donald J. Trump…
Michel Barnier has brought France to the verge of collapse
A new Anglo-Saxon barbarism has entered the French political language: ‘government shutdown.’ There is excited talk of civil servants not…
Keir Starmer’s pointless meeting with Emmanuel Macron
It’s extremely difficult to imagine that today’s meeting between Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron produced anything substantive beyond a photo opportunity…
SpaceX has put Europe to shame
The flawless launch of SpaceX’s 5,000-ton Starship and its Super Heavy Booster, and the precision recovery of the booster on…
France is finally opting for austerity
After the binge, the bill? The new French government of Michel Barnier presented the main lines of its proposed 2025…
Michel Barnier’s government in name only
A trillion here and a trillion there and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. Of course, France now owes…
