Horror in Arras: France comes under attack again
Emmanuel Macron’s appeal for France to unite has not been heeded. Barely 12 hours after the president made his address…
France’s Jews are afraid
Emmanuel Macron addressed France on television on Thursday evening. It was an opportunity for the president to reiterate his support…
Qatar, Hamas and the West’s shameful silence
The political class in France have rounded on Jean-Luc Mélenchon for his failure to condemn Hamas’s attack against Israel. The…
When will the EU take France’s Islamist concerns seriously?
The European Parliament hosted an event in Brussels last week entitled ‘Close Guantanamo’. It was hosted by two Irish left-wing…
Where is the western outrage at this migrant crisis?
Pakistan has told all unauthorised Afghan migrants that they must leave the country by the end of October. Imagine if…
Does Germany want to bring down Giorgia Meloni?
Is there a plot afoot to oust Giorgia Meloni as Prime Minister and replace her with someone more to the…
Paris has become the city of love, rats and bugs
There are said to be six million rats in Paris. I met one last week when I was retrieving some…
The war against the French police is just getting started
Last Saturday in Paris a police officer leapt from his car and levelled his handgun at a baying mob. The…
The Pope is wrong to criticise Europe over the migrant crisis
Pope Francis spent the weekend in Marseille where he admonished Europe for their attitude towards migrants. Specifically, the Pontiff took…
Oh, how Emmanuel Macron wishes he was a king!
King Charles arrived in Paris today on the first stage of a three day state visit to France, a country…
Macron and Starmer are made for each other
It is Keir Starmer’s misfortune that he arrives in Paris today for a meeting with Emmanuel Macron at the moment…
Why rugby fans love to hate Macron
Emmanuel Macron was in Lille on Thursday evening to watch France defeat Uruguay as the Bleus made it two wins…
Europe’s migrant crisis is only going to get worse
It is almost three years to the day since Ursula von der Leyen gave her inaugural State of the Union…
The Colombian cartels are coming to Europe
In May this year 87,000 asylum applications were lodged with the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA). This was a…
Will a French coalition join forces against Le Pen at the next election?
Emmanuel Macron is not happy. He would love to run for a third term as president but the French constitution…
Why Macron wants to put French schoolkids back in uniform
The details of King Charles’ state visit to France later this month were announced on Wednesday. His Majesty’s deputy private…
What France’s rubgy racism row reveals about the French left
Emmanuel Macron spent Monday morning in the presence of the French rugby team and for once he spoke without ambiguity.…
Will Paris’s ban stop e-scooters killing people?
Rental e-scooters have been banned from Paris since Friday after residents of the French capital were asked to decide their…
The truth about the backlash to France’s abaya school ban
The intellectual infirmity that has laid low much of Europe’s left this century had been painfully exposed this week in…
Who’s more useless – the Tories or the England rugby team?
In a curious way the decline of English rugby mirrors that of the Conservative party. Four years ago there was…
France is spiralling out of control
It’s been a brutal month in France but one would barely know it from the reaction of much of the…
The developing world has grown tired of Britain’s hypocrisy
The timing could not have been worse for Rishi Sunak. Just days after it was confirmed by Downing Street that…
Enforce the borders, stop the boats, save lives
Rishi Sunak has failed in his pledge to ‘Stop the Boats’, and the £480 million deal he signed with France…
Macron doesn’t care about migrants crossing the Channel
The British government is reportedly ‘frustrated’ with France for its failure to stem the numbers of migrants making their way…
Europe’s migrant crisis is about to get much worse
The first time Mohamed Bazoum came to the attention of the European media was in the aftermath of the Great…
