France
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
The dark future of free media in Europe
A French news channel has been fined for airing unchallenged negative views about migration and climate change
The immobile prince
Political chaos masks the stagnation of French economic life
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
Collapse of the cordon sanitaire
The success of nationalists is shaking European politics
On Américanisation
French life is being transformed by the influence of American culture
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
