Twenty-three years ago, France split the West. President Jacques Chirac refused to join the United States and Britain in their invasion of Iraq. His foreign minister Dominique de Villepin eloquently rejected the rationale for war in the United Nations. Pa... See more
Two weeks after his death, an obscure student has become the most significant figure in French politics. Quentin Deranque, 23, a Far Right activist, was beaten to death by Far Left militants in Lyon on February 12th. Film of his beating shows a vicious br... See more
The crisis is over. France does not yet have a state budget for this year but it will soon. The Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, was given little chance of survival, let alone finding a budget deal, when he was appointed for a second time in October. He... See more
Neville Chamberlain said in 1938 that there was no reason for British or French soldiers to die for Czechoslovakia. Nazi Germany’s threat to seize Czech territory was “a quarrel in a faraway country by people of whom we know nothing”. Who is ready to die ... See more
All political careers end in failure but some failures are more prolonged than others. The long goodbye of Emmanuel Macron still has 17 months to run. He lost all control of parliament 18 month ago but will remain in office, not truly in power, until May ... See more
