Jonathan Miller

SpaceX has put Europe to shame

15 October 2024 3:31 am

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

11 October 2024 11:05 pm

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

2 October 2024 10:26 am

A trillion here and a trillion there and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.  Of course, France now owes…

Why French students want English uniforms

28 September 2024 9:00 am

Béziers, France The École Mairan in Béziers in southern France is a happy neighbourhood elementary school housed in a superb…

Marine Le Pen looks unstoppable

21 September 2024 3:30 pm

Overlook for the moment the shenanigans surrounding French prime minister Michel Barnier’s attempt to cobble together a new government. One…

It’s a pity Thierry Breton didn’t resign sooner

17 September 2024 9:54 pm

The spectacular resignation of Thierry Breton from the European Commission suggests that the president of the European Commission Ursula von…

Marine Le Pen is crucial to Michel Barnier’s survival

7 September 2024 12:41 am

Michel Barnier, the OAP appointed yesterday as Prime Minister of France, is a sensible fellow, even if at 73 he…

Macron’s search for a prime minster is a complete farce

4 September 2024 10:37 pm

Who will be the next prime minister of France? Almost two months after the centre lost its majority in the National…

French politics has become an absurdist farce

22 August 2024 4:00 pm

It’s the rentrée politique this week in France, the start of the political year, a bit earlier than normal. It promises to be…

Imane Khelif’s laughable lawsuit against J.K. Rowling

15 August 2024 12:31 am

Popcorn not being the traditional French treat to celebrate an entertaining spectacle, break out the caramel au beurre salé.   J.K.…

France’s view on the British riots is stunningly hypocritical

12 August 2024 1:50 am

As the Olympics draw to a close tonight, two things have delighted the French. The first is that the Games turned…

The cult of Bedales

3 August 2024 9:00 am

Another of my ageing Bedales school cohort has died and so there’s an ad hoc reunion in his honour at…

Macron’s Olympic delusion

26 July 2024 3:00 pm

All the world’s a stage and the Olympic Games in Paris is the greatest stage of all for the comedian president. Emmanuel…

Macron is looking increasingly desperate

11 July 2024 9:58 pm

President Emmanuel Macron finally broke his silence and rediscovered the magical breath of his ‘baraka’ as he took to the…

Emmanuel Macron is cornered

10 July 2024 9:09 pm

They’re playing with a Rubik’s Cube in Paris trying to cobble together a government. An Italian-job technocratic government? A national government…

Le Pen is still the biggest winner in France’s elections

8 July 2024 8:06 pm

Ignore most snap verdicts from last night – the big winner in the French parliamentary election was still Marine Le…

Après Macron, le déluge

7 July 2024 4:00 pm

France is voting after three weeks of campaigning, backstabbing, attacks on more than 50 politicians so far, some light rioting,…

Is Macron considering using France’s emergency powers?

21 June 2024 8:25 pm

Does Emmanuel Macron have one more joker to play? Perhaps. His petulant decision to dissolve the National Assembly has been…

Will French voters be revolted by the new popular front?

18 June 2024 10:07 pm

The Nouveau Front Populaire has been formed to take on Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in the French legislative…

Can Macron still outplay Le Pen?

15 June 2024 9:00 am

Petulance, panic and performance. President Macron’s broadcast following the evisceration of his party in last weekend’s elections for the European…

French healthcare shows there’s another way for the NHS

8 June 2024 10:26 pm

Nigel Farage says the NHS ‘isn’t working’ and has suggested the UK adopt a French-style heathcare system. He’s evidently been…

The EU wants to make travelling to France a misery

28 May 2024 11:06 pm

Exciting developments may be in store for everyone travelling to Europe from this autumn onwards. That’s to say riots, gnashing…

Macron’s empire is falling apart

25 May 2024 2:32 am

‘Maoré na Farantsa paka tcho!’, Emmanuel Macron declared five years ago campaigning in Mamoudzou, speaking the local language of Shimaoré…

The bizarre sexual politics of the French

11 May 2024 6:30 pm

‘More sex please, we’re French,’ declared, in effect, France’s president Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, demanding that his compatriots counteract a…

Will under-13 curfews really make France safer?

26 April 2024 12:10 am

Rebecca, a British friend who taught theatre studies at a celebrated English public school before she was brutally sacked during…