France
Empire of the Imagination
Historical metafiction
Hold a mirror up to France
Imagine the Channel migrant crisis were reversed — who would the media blame?
Gaullism at a crossroads
The French Right faces its old demons and its moment of truth
Le Pétain nouveau
France should look across the Channel before electing a journalist as president
Is Britain winning the fishing wars?
Patrick O’Flynn and David Scullion discuss where British fishing stands post-Brexit
Fishing wars
Brexit fallout sees France going into decline, while Britain exploits its new-found freedoms
Failed state
How history makes rioters of the French
Eric Zemmour: A French Trump?
Who is the dark horse of France’s presidential election?
The incestuous sins of the soixante-huitards
The secrets and lies of the Castro-loving 1960s revolutionaries who became part of the French establishment
Laughing laureate of Western decline
Michel Houellebecq’s prescient, mocking critiques of our debased modern world
More shenanigans at the RIBA
Ideologues and marketers are ruining the Royal Institute of British Architects
The problem with Nigel Farage
The maverick Reform leader might be entertaining, but he is also unreliable
The pointlessness of pintlessness
There is no case for slashing the drink-driving limit
Sweet vengeance could turn sour
Anti-Conservative right-wingers should be careful what they wish for
Fear and tension in Frankfurt
Mass immigration has exacerbated societal dysfunction in Germany
Trump the peacemaker?
Donald Trump’s survival should inspire him to seek an end to violence
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
Don’t blame “county lines” victims
Exploited children need protecting, not convicting
How Reform can reform itself
Reform can be major player — but it will take good sense and dedication
It’s called X, not XXX
Elon Musk is wrong to open the door to porn on X
How short is an arm in the arts?
ACE’s politicisation goes back all the way to the Blair government
