Twenty-eight years ago I was in the vast crowd which filled the Champs Elysées to celebrate the French victory in the final of the football World Cup. The winning French team was brown, white and black. So was the crowd. There was no violence. The mood wa... See more
In less than a year, Emmanuel Macron will cease to be President of the Republic. Put another way, Macron’s endless goodbye still has more than 11 months to run. He surrendered real power when he lost a snap parliamentary election almost two years ago. Thr... See more
Gabriel Attal was the youngest and one of the most ephemeral Prime Ministers of the Fifth Republic. He spent six months running the government before – to his fury – President Emmanuel Macron called a disastrous parliamentary election in June 2024. He has... See more
He thinks so. At the age of 71, Hollande is “preparing” for a run for the presidency next year. He has not yet declared his hand but he is counting his cards. In an interview with Marianne magazine this month, he suggested that the key issue may be “who a... See more
Primary elections in the US are like baseball or cheeseburgers: part of the culture and widely understood. Not so in France. Primaries – ie elections to elect a candidate - have a long and patchy history in France and mostly a dysfunctional one. Before th... See more
