France
Europe is breaking the welfare taboo
Are we witnessing the end of the European welfare state?
The taming of Emmanuel Macron
The French president was once a bold reformer. What went wrong?
“Submission”: a retrospective
Michel Houellebecq wrote a great novel — but it need not be entirely prophetic
In defence of state banquets
Would we prefer a finger-food buffet at a Crowne Plaza hotel?
Why France keeps rioting
C’est la vie Parisienne
From France with love
We could do a lot worse than a marriage with our closest continental neighbour
Cordon bleu for me and yeu
Dining in style at a cult buffet restaurant
Boulez celebrated but titans ignored
Two painful coincidences underline the imbalance of a presidential command
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
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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
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade