Emmanuel Macron
Britain must reject the European model
France has been in a state of organised uprising this week, with 300,000 motorists taking to the streets and autoroutes…
France’s second world war shame
The monument to this French village’s war dead is a plain white stone block with the head of a grizzled…
Is Emmanuel Macron having a meltdown?
Emmanuel Macron was elated when France won the World Cup in July. The photograph of him leaping out of his…
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…
Portrait of the week: a new royal baby, more Brexit rows and the Trump-Macron bromance
Home No. 10 insisted: ‘We will not be staying in the customs union or joining a customs union.’ The undertaking…
Macron’s Thatcher moment has arrived
The honeymoon is over for Emmanuel Macron. His first 11 months in office have been something of a breeze —…
Brexit suggests we’re on the right side of history
How nice it would be, in this season of good cheer, to find something hopeful to say. Being a historian,…
Greece Notebook
I have come to Greece in search of sanity over Brexit. Ostensibly it is a symposium to discuss relations between…
Diary
A trip to the supermarché at the beginning of our French month yielded many of the necessary things one also…
The Spectator’s notes
Having worked flat-out to defend judges over the Article 50 case in the Supreme Court, the BBC has gone the…
