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Tariq Ramadan and the integrity of French justice
For the last four months, Oxford professor Tariq Ramadan has been rotting in a French jail, like Jean Valjean. He…
Macron’s defeat of the railway unions is as historic as Thatcher’s victory over Scargill
Who would have thought it? French president Emmanuel Macron has defeated the French railway unions. His victory is as symbolic…
Emmanuel Macron’s challenge for French lesbians
The man who brought France’s Socialist Party to the brink of ruin has no sense of shame. In recent weeks,…
Erdogan’s influence is spreading across Europe
Two video clips did the rounds in the French media at the weekend. One went global, that of the heart-warming heroism…
Will Macron meet his match in Marion Maréchal?
Last summer, a French magazine warned on its front cover that 250,000 migrants were headed their way in 2018. ‘Alarmist’,…
Europe is the new front in the Israel-Palestine conflict
Gaza has a galvanising effect on Europeans. Jeremy Corbyn, for example, appeared to have no consolatory words for France after…
The French far left’s common cause with Islamism
The French have an expression to describe far-left citizens who identity more with Islam than the Republic: ‘Islamo-Gauchiste’, a term…
The far left’s fascists are rebels without a cause
Imagine if the 1,200 hoodlums who rampaged through Paris on May Day had been members of a far-right organisation. Imagine…
Macron-Trump bromance blossoms as the sun sets on Special Relationship
Twenty-one years ago the sun finally set on the British Empire with the handover of Hong Kong. Now, the sun…
Why should France tolerate Islamic intolerance?
Why has the refusal of France to grant a passport to an Algerian woman who declined to shake the hand…
Islamists are relishing France’s slow slide into chaos
There is something fundamentally rotten at the heart of the European far-left. In Britain it manifests itself in institutional anti-Semitism,…
The chivalry of France’s murdered policeman
There’s one word you may not hear in connection with the death of Lt-Col Beltrame who died last night, the…
Islamist terror returns to France
Islamist terror returned to France this morning with at least three people reportedly killed when a Moroccan man, reportedly claiming…
France’s socialist party is failing to learn from its mistakes
France’s socialist party are to be congratulated for pulling off the remarkable feat of selecting as their next leader a…
Macron backs May over Russia
President Emmanuel Macron has offered his full support to Theresa May and said that France may take its own action…
Marine Le Pen’s relaunch falls flat
It wasn’t the weekend that Marine Le Pen envisaged. When last Saturday dawned in the northern French city of Lille,…
Could the golden girl of the French right emulate Macron?
The news that Marion Maréchal-Le Pen will share a stage this week with US conservatives, addressing the annual Conservative Political…
Gavin Williamson’s diplomatic incident
Since Gavin Williamson was appointed as Defence Secretary, the Conservative MP has been in a rush to prove his credentials.…
Macron’s naive plan to revive national service
Emmanuel Macron’s vow to press ahead with plans to bring back national service for France’s youth has taken many by…
France’s Jewish population has good reason to feel afraid
In January 2016, Nicolas Sarkozy was honoured by British Jews at a ceremony in London. The former French president was…
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