French Politics
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
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 taming of Emmanuel Macron
The French president was once a bold reformer. What went wrong?
Marine Le Pen’s prosecution is an opportunity for the French right
A new candidate might emerge with a fresher and more optimistic vision
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
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
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism