France
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Windy Whitty
Chris Whitty is wrong about so-called “fat jabs”
Death and the self righteous mob
Trying to understand a brutal killing wrapped up in French left-wing politics
Opposed, for sure, but modernising
Emmanuel Macron’s longer term legacy will not be one of style over substance, but of creating a certain idea of France’s place in the modern world
Alpine lyricism
Each day mimics the last, ending in a mountain refuge Holy Trinity of soup, fire and bed
How a cross in Corsica sparked a culture war
A dispute over a Corsican village cross has become a proxy conflict in an existential war over French identity
The problem with idolising victims
The Pelicot rift is an important part of the Pelicot story
Why the French do higher education better
Unlike in Britain, students are treated as the adults that they are
Europe is breaking the welfare taboo
Are we witnessing the end of the European welfare state?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon