The real problem with Macron’s elite school
President Emmanuel Macron announced today the closure of the notorious École Nationale d’Administration, the elite finishing school for the senior…
Macron’s latest lockdown fiasco
On New Year’s Eve, Emmanuel Macron promised France an economic revival by the Spring. Cancel that. Instead, as the intensive…
C’est Zemmour
The French journalist who could unseat President Macron
Nicolas Sarkozy and a very French corruption scandal
Nicolas Sarkozy, 66, President of France from 2007 to 2012, currently a valued member of Emmanuel Macron’s informal council of…
Liberté, égalité, complicité
The sex abuse scandal rocking the French elite
France vs Islamism
How does Macron hope to prosecute his war?
Terror in France: the beheading of Samuel Paty
The decapitation of middle school teacher Samuel Paty, 46, by an Islamist in a suburb of Paris yesterday is not…
Tiphaine Auzière and the panic inside the Élysée
Will the presidency of Emmanuel Macron open the door to a political dynasty in France? He has no children, so…
Macron’s new sidekick
Is France’s latest prime minister just another fall guy?
Is Macron Boris’s best friend now?
If Emmanuel Macron is intending to extract a pound of flesh from the United Kingdom as the price of Brexit,…
Macron has lost the coronavirus war
France is to be locked down until 11 May, and possibly longer. Whether the credibility of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency can…
French pressed
Coronavirus is taking Macron’s government to breaking point
The French connection
Macron has fallen under Boris’s spell
Could this self-made billionaire become France’s first Muslim president?
The French writer Michel Houellebecq has a disconcerting habit of correctly predicting unsettling events. In 2001 in Plateforme he predicted…
Emmanuel Macron has united his country – against him
Montpellier An embattled, incompetent leader distrusted and disliked by a vast majority of voters. A wobbly economy that might be…
Let them buy Teslas! How Macron became the enemy of the French
Emmanuel Macron is supposed to be the cleverest man in France but he has painted himself so completely into a…
The nowhere man of France: Corbyn’s new pal Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Jeremy Corbyn is promising to forge closer ties with his French counterpart Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the hard-left La…
Macron’s summer of discontent
‘It could be argued that getting out of the office to beat up some leftists is a good way to…
Macron marches on
The rentrée politique in France next month promises to be the most exciting in decades as the dynamic superstar president…
A little too perfect
Emmanuel Macron is going to be the next president of France. I know people are saying Marine Le Pen isn’t…
Faute de mieux
Who will win the French presidential election? Does it even matter? Nothing in the programmes or personalities of the leading…
