French Politics
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
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 final death of left v. right?
Old political categories are losing their value
Collapse of the cordon sanitaire
The success of nationalists is shaking European politics
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
Who will be Macron’s dauphin?
And what does it mean to be the heir to Macronism anyway
The French disorder
France needs more realism about its social decay
Liberty, fraternity, animosity
The right-wing turn in France
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
