A brief history of the gilets jaunes

Everything you need to know about France's 'yellow jackets' protests

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French farmers are the new Gilets Jaunes

BY Olly Haynes / 6 mins

The Gilets Jaunes achieved nothing

BY John Lichfield / 6 mins

The French are dying to hunt

BY John Lewis-Stempel / 6 mins

Macron’s fake war on the elites

BY John Lichfield / 5 mins

Macron turns on the liberals

BY Aris Roussinos / 6 mins

Could a comedian topple Macron?

BY John Lichfield / 6 mins

When Asterix took on Covid-19

BY John Lewis-Stempel / 5 mins

How France became the most anti-Semitic country in the West

BY Anne-Elisabeth Moutet / 4 mins

Britain’s new class war

BY Michael Lind / 5 mins

Emmanuel Macron’s alienating ambition

BY Anne-Elisabeth Moutet / 5 mins

Everything we do with tax is wrong

BY Dominic Frisby / 5 mins

There’s no such thing as ‘the good old days’

BY John Lichfield / 4 mins

How the gilets jaunes went up in flames

BY John Lichfield / 5 mins

What does it mean to be French?

BY John Lichfield / 7 mins

Have the yellow jackets turned red?

BY John Lichfield / 6 mins

Why is French democracy so prone to violence?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Macron’s cunning plan for Europe

BY John Lichfield / 6 mins

The Trade Union Club for liberal cosmopolitans

BY Paul Embery / 4 mins

The 2019 Franco-Italian war

BY John Lichfield / 8 mins

How the gilets jaunes could save Macron’s skin

BY John Lichfield / 7 mins

Understanding the ‘gilets jaunes’

BY John Lichfield / 3 mins

Could the gilets jaunes topple Macron?

BY John Lichfield / 6 mins

What’s driving this French revolution?

BY John Lichfield / 7 mins