The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
We must punish the parents
How should France tackle the problem of repeat juvenile offenders?
Élection dangereuse
Emmanuel Macron risks it all
Ballots or bullets in New Caledonia
Democracy is at stake as violence scars the French territory
France’s philosopher king
There is a jarring disconnect between Michel Houellebecq’s critiques of sexual liberation and his dissolute lifestyle
The French disease
France is at war over pensions, but behind the bloodymindedness is a very justified rage
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Bring back literary vendettas
Grub Street thrived when
there was an “establishment”,
movements and feuds
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws