Marine Le Pen
The electoral humiliation of Macron and Le Pen
Five years ago, Emmanuel Macron was ‘en marche’ to his improbable ascent to the presidency of France. Last night, having…
France, football and Marine Le Pen’s war on a French rapper
‘Dans ce rêve où ma semence de nègre fout en cloque cette chienne de Marine Le Pen.’ You don’t have…
France’s military wages war on Macron’s values
On 21 April 1961 France’s most senior generals staged a putsch in French Algiers, still an integral part of France.…
C’est Zemmour
The French journalist who could unseat President Macron
Macron eyes up a new career
How is France dealing with its latest Covid wave? Not particularly well, if you listen to the director of epidemiological research…
Macron’s new sidekick
Is France’s latest prime minister just another fall guy?
Could coronavirus lead to Frexit?
Is France flirting with the idea of Frexit again? Coronavirus is currently provoking a chorus of ‘reprendre le contrôle’ (take…
Europe is a continent in crisis – where lo-vis people now wear high-vis jackets
The ‘yellow vest’ protests against President Emmanuel Macron that swept through Paris and other French cities last month have evoked…
How Orbán duped the Brexiteers
To the inhabitants of the British Isles, the nations of central Europe have always existed in a semi–mythical space, near…
France’s new right
The result in France in the first round of the Les Républicains party’s primary elections marks the political death of…
The devil they know
You will, by now, be familiar with the argument: that Donald Trump’s triumph in the American presidential election represents a…
Hollande’s hollow crown
France’s president is looking more hopeless than ever. But French politics is such a mess that he’ll probably survive
Hug, hold hands . . . then stampede to the right
What a pleasure it was to see two socialist parties triumph in the most recent elections. First, Labour increased its…
The politics of terror
Hollande isn’t seizing his chance. Marine Le Pen might
Are we looking at the end of liberal democracy?
As a graduate student in the Harvard Department of Government in the late 1980s, I became slightly jaded about the…
France’s new reactionaries
The nation’s intellectuals are being roiled by issues of immigration, sovereignty and freedom of expression
France’s fight on the right
The leaders of the Républicains avoid Le Pen’s coarse language, but many offer similar immigration policies
Vive Hollande?
How France’s wobbly pudding of a president could still win again
The actor-commentariat
I’ve never been terribly keen on actors. I prefer hairdressers and accountants. And teachers and builders and lawyers. I may…
Gay right
Marine Le Pen’s unlikely rainbow coalition
President or prisoner?
Destiny is calling Nicolas Sarkozy. But it’s not clear whether he’s heading back to the Elysée – or to jail
French suicide
The desperate state of its politics seems to signal the end of the Republic
