February 18, 2026

Gisèle Pelicot’s divisive stoicism It has alienated her children

Sophie Heawood

12.11

The Bataclan massacre still stalks France Sectarian rage won’t be soothed by more memorials

Andrew Hussey

10.11

How Bardella would break the EU He won’t soften like Meloni

Wolfgang Munchau

23.10

How the elites stole France The theft is the pinnacle of their complacency

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

11.09

Is this the end of the Fifth Republic? To govern is to lose

Richard Vinen

10.09

How the boomers crippled France Bayrou is right about the broken social contract

Francois Valentin

01.09

Europe’s deadly debt spiral Tax rises will only accelerate its decline

Wolfgang Munchau

23.08

Can Le Pen be stopped? The radical Left is hopeless

Julian Jackson

20.08

Follow Lévi-Strauss into the jungle ‘Tristes Tropiques’ rejects the safety of the café

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

13.08

The Paris mosque upending Macron’s diplomacy France and Algeria are trapped by mutual contempt

Andrew Hussey

30.07

Brigitte Macron vs the transvestigators Conspiracy has always stalked the French court

Poppy Sowerby

14.07

Why the French hate Bastille Day Historical debates reflect real fractures

Andrew Hussey