Marine Le Pen
The ankle tag and the ballot box
The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters
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
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
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
The immobile prince
Political chaos masks the stagnation of French economic life
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
The resurrection of France?
A third way to the cynical politics of Macron and Le Pen exists
Le Pen surging as France prepares to go to the polls
France’s establishment parties are nowhere in Sunday’s election
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The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
The end of corporate silence
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