Emmanuel Macron
France’s bistros are dying
Emmanuel Macron says France’s traditional bistros should be granted Unesco world heritage status. Speaking at the Élysée this week, the…
European leaders have changed their tune on war
Ten days after Thanksgiving, news watchers were exposed to one of the more culturally incongruous images in recent history: Ukrainian…
Will bromance bloom between Trump and Jordan Bardella?
Life has never been so good for Jordan Bardella, the 30-year-old president of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. A recent…
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…
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…
Heartbreaking scenes: Annihilation, by Michel Houellebecq, reviewed
Set in 2027, with France in a state of economic and moral decay, Houellebecq’s deeply affecting novel is really a meditation on love and death and the way we treat the dying
Why can’t French progressives be more civil?
There was a muted reaction among the French political class to the attempt on Donald’s Trump’s life. Keir Starmer sent…
France’s ‘Somewheres’ want revenge
The builder who has been working on my house in Burgundy will be voting for Marine Le Pen’s National Rally…
Starmer and Le Pen’s similarities
Emmanuel Macron’s decision to call a snap election in France is turning out to be a blunder of Sunakian proportions.…
The 28-year-old who legitimised Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally – formerly the National Front – is expected to triumph for a third time running…
Diary
After the shale gas vote, I was literally sent to Coventry – to visit the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre. It…
Diary
It’s been a great week for the powerful fantasies of fiction (see more below), but over the weekend no novel…
The murder of Lola and the failure of Marconism
Last Friday, a beautiful 12-year-old Paris girl named Lola failed to come home from middle school. Later that evening, her…
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…
What kompromat does Trump have on Macron?
Did Donald Trump have kompromat on Emmanuel Macron within the secret files seized by the FBI from his Mar-a-Lago Xanadu?…
Letter from France
Back in 1997 when I was narked on by a fellow journalist (Simon Walters, currently of the Times, then of…
High life
It’s nice to be back on the old continent again, especially after getting within a couple of hundred yards of…
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…
Macron vs the deep state
French diplomats are on strike today. But will anyone notice? Not to be immodest, I am especially well qualified to…
Blair is wrong: the future of Britain shouldn’t involve Macron
Tony Blair believes the way forward for Britain is to seek guidance from Emmanuel Macron. The former British prime minister…
Can anyone stop Emmanuel Macron?
If they weren’t insufficiently weary of politicians, the French will be invited to vote all over again for the Assemblée…
Forget Le Pen 2027
If Emmanuel Macron has any sense he will be back in the office this morning. Sunday night’s celebratory shindig was…
The narcissist vs the fantasist
France faces a gruesome choice
Le Pen drives Paris mad. That’s why her voters love her
When asked to define Marine Le Pen in a single word, a majority of French people came up with ‘cats’…
