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
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
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
Ballots or bullets in New Caledonia
Democracy is at stake as violence scars the French territory
Europe between the Seine and the Tiber
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU
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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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting