Marine Le Pen

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

A new candidate might emerge with a fresher and more optimistic vision

France appears to be becoming ungovernable

Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?

Political chaos masks the stagnation of French economic life

Old political categories are losing their value

The success of nationalists is shaking European politics

A third way to the cynical politics of Macron and Le Pen exists

France’s establishment parties are nowhere in Sunday’s election 

France pivots to liberal authoritarianism, not conservatism