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Have Londoners forgotten how to stand up to anti-Semites?

There are some among the tens of thousands who march through London each week who genuinely seek peace in Gaza. There are others who march because...

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Iran should be banned from the Paris Olympics

Few would disagree with Ben Wallace’s description of Iran as a ‘bully’. The former defence secretary made his comments earlier this week after...

19.04.2024 6

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Macron vs Putin: this summer’s Olympic battle

Dixmont, Yonne Last summer, Emmanuel Macron lashed out at France’s constitution because it prevents him from running for a third consecutive term...

17.04.2024 3

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Why is the mayor of Tehran welcome in Brussels but not Nigel Farage?

‘How do you think this looks to the rest of the world?’ asked Nigel Farage as police attempted to shut down the National Conservatism conference...

17.04.2024 5

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Far right / Why is the mayor of Tehran welcome in Brussels but not Nigel Farage?

‘How do you think this looks to the rest of the world?’ asked Nigel Farage as police attempted to shut down the National Conservatism conference...

17.04.2024 10

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France and Britain have both shamefully neglected the white working class

Emmanuel Macron told a communist newspaper earlier this year that he didn’t consider Marine le Pen’s National Rally part of the ‘Republican...

15.04.2024 10

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Germanophobia is growing in France

There was a time earlier this century when few politicians in France would dare criticise Germany. The country was the powerhouse of Europe and Angela...

13.04.2024 4

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The EU’s migrant pact is worthless

It has been a bloody April in France. Last week a 13-year-old girl of Algerian origin was beaten unconscious, allegedly by her classmates, for...

11.04.2024 5

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Macron vs Putin: this summer’s Olympic battle

Dixmont, Yonne Last summer, Emmanuel Macron lashed out at France’s constitution because it prevents him from running for a third consecutive term...

11.04.2024 8

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The plot to bring down Emmanuel Macron

Last week Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the Olympic aquatic centre that will host the swimming and diving events at this summer’s Paris games. The...

09.04.2024 20

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France’s schools are succumbing to the Islamist threat

A 13-year-old Muslim girl was beaten unconscious outside her school gates in Montpellier in southern France on Tuesday. Her mother says she was...

05.04.2024 4

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A leftist revolution won’t stop Marine Le Pen

A well-known French radio comedian recently suggested an armed revolution in the event Marine Le Pen is elected President in 2027. Mahaut Drama made...

03.04.2024 10

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The alarming rise of the middle-aged terrorist

Police in Paris last week arrested a man suspected of planning an attack against a church. That in itself was not unusual. According to Prime Minister...

01.04.2024 6

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The French want weed, not wine

Across France this Easter families will gather to eat, drink and, in many cases, smoke drugs. There are five million regular cannabis smokers in...

29.03.2024 30

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Europe must tighten its borders to combat the Islamist threat

Europe is on a state of high alert after Friday’s Islamist attack in Moscow that left 137 concertgoers dead. France has raised its security alert to...

26.03.2024 5

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Can Macron halt the ‘Mexicanisation’ of France?

Emmanuel Macron showed off his virility this week with the release of two photos in which he is seen giving a punchbag his best shots. Is Vladimir...

24.03.2024 40

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Terror / Putin is as deluded about the Islamist threat as the West

From the outset it was obvious to seasoned observers who massacred more than 130 Russians at a concert hall Moscow on Friday evening. It wasn’t, as...

23.03.2024 5

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What the French left could learn from Keir Starmer

Last week on Spectator TV Fraser Nelson saluted the ‘intervention’ of the Labour party in the debate about whether the magazine he edits, as well...

19.03.2024 5

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The EU is divided in its bid to stop the boats

There was good and bad news for the European Union last week: the number of migrants arriving in Europe on the Central Mediterranean route in the...

18.03.2024 8

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Will France’s Olympians embarrass Macron?

France host England tonight in the final match of the 2024 Six Nations. ‘Le Crunch’, as this fixture has come to be known, is never for the...

16.03.2024 5

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Emmanuel Macron and the reason being a parent in politics matters

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to the French press this week and passed on a message to the people. ‘Your children are not going to...

15.03.2024 5

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Is Giorgia Meloni a secret centrist?

When it became clear in September 2022 that Giorgia’s Meloni right-wing coalition was on course to win Italy’s general election, Ursula von der...

12.03.2024 6

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Macron’s war-mongering talk is unnerving Europe

Relations between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron have always been strained but they’re now positively hostile....

08.03.2024 10

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Will Macron sell out to Saudis over their Olympic village request?

Britain and its government has a well deserved reputation for kow-towing to foreign investors. But even they (one hopes) would draw a line at allowing...

06.03.2024 9

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Is Rishi Sunak too late to stop the spread of Islamism?

Rishi Sunak has joined the long line of prime ministers who have declared that enough is enough, and the country must act to root out Islamist...

04.03.2024 10

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Reform should ditch Richard Tice before it’s too late

The Reform Party has claimed that the Rochdale by-election was not ‘free and fair’. Their leader, Richard Tice, said that his party had suffered...

01.03.2024 6

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Macron’s foreign policy is full of double standards

Alexei Navalny is being laid to rest in Moscow today, a fortnight after the Russian opposition leader was found dead at a gulag in the Arctic circle....

01.03.2024 2

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Macron has embarrassed and embittered his military

Emmanuel Macron is the first president of the Fifth Republic to have never served in the military, and it shows. His bellicose declaration on Monday...

28.02.2024 7

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Why is Macron acting like a ‘warlord’?

Emmanuel Macron has said that the West may have to send ground troops to Ukraine to support their war against Russia. The president of France made his...

27.02.2024 5

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France expels Islamists while Britain appeases them

France last week deported an imam after footage emerged of him appearing to preach hate. Mahjoub Mahjoubi, who has lived in France since 1986 and...

26.02.2024 10

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Europe’s elitist politicians have lost touch with the working classes

What links Rishi Sunak to Elly Schlein, the leader of the Italian left, and Raphaël Glucksmann, the great hope of the French Socialist party?...

23.02.2024 10

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Macron’s latest adversary might be his most dangerous yet

It’s been a terrible start to the year for Emmanuel Macron and his new government. Aside from the well-publicised farmers’ protest, there has also...

21.02.2024 7

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It’s stalemate in Ukraine but Putin is defeating the West in Africa

In the early hours of Saturday morning, police in Paris shot dead a Sudanese man who had threatened them with a meat cleaver. The motive for his...

20.02.2024 20

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France’s anti-democratic streak

For the past week the airwaves in France have eulogised Robert Badinter, a name unfamiliar to many outside the Republic. He was the Justice Minister...

17.02.2024 7

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Will the Tories be wiped out like the French Republicans?

Vote for me or you’ll end up with Keir Starmer. That was the threat from Rishi Sunak on Monday evening when in front of the GB News cameras he...

14.02.2024 20

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The sinister transformation of Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg spent her weekend in France supporting two environmental campaigns. On Sunday she appeared at a rally in Bordeaux against an oil...

12.02.2024 2

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The left can’t stand France’s new culture minister

France’s new minister of culture has promised to put an end to the creeping cancel culture that is threatening the country. ‘Today wokeism has...

10.02.2024 6

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Taylor Swift can’t save the EU

The EU hopes that Taylor Swift and other pop starlets will come to its rescue in June’s European elections. With pollsters predicting significant...

09.02.2024 10

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Russia is far from the biggest worry in Macron’s crime-ridden France

February has not started well for the European Union. On the first day of the month, furious farmers surrounded the parliament in Brussels, chanting...

05.02.2024 20

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France’s farmers will be back on Paris’s doorstep before long

In a week full of symbolism in France, the most striking image was the sight of armoured cars blocking the path of tractors outside Paris. The...

02.02.2024 9

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Bad crop / Why European farmers are revolting

Dixmont, Yonne I am writing these words from my house in Burgundy. If I look over my shoulder out of the window I can see the house of my neighbour,...

01.02.2024 7

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France’s furious farmers are marching on Paris

Paris will be under siege from 2 p.m. today as farmers intensify their protest action and attempt to cut off the capital from the rest of France. They...

29.01.2024 9

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European voters are rebelling against the elites

A friend of mine intends to vote for the National Rally in June’s European Elections. That in itself is nothing unusual – 13.2 million people...

26.01.2024 10

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Two weeks in, Gabriel Attal is already fighting fires

Gabriel Attal has only been in his job for two weeks but the youngest prime minister in the history of the Fifth Republic is already facing a series...

24.01.2024 10

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France’s protesting farmers have spooked Emmanuel Macron

The farmers of France are mobilising. Their anger will be an early test for Gabriel Attal; the countryside is unknown territory for the new prime...

22.01.2024 10

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Katharine Birbalsingh and France’s own secularism battle

The row that has erupted at Katharine Birbalsingh’s Michaela school in north London highlights the difference in how Britain and France confront...

21.01.2024 7

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Is Emmanuel Macron secretly hoping for a Trump victory?

The great and the good of this world met in Davos this week to tell each other how wonderful they are. But amid all the bonhomie and back-slapping...

19.01.2024 6

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Macron governs Paris but Le Pen rules France

There has never been a more Parisian government than the one selected by Emmanuel Macron last week. Ten of its 15 ministers come from the capital,...

15.01.2024 20

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Gabriel Attal and the unstoppable rise of Klaus Schwab’s ‘global leaders’

The French found out on Thursday evening that, under their new prime minister, nothing will change in the way their country is run. Gabriel Attal,...

12.01.2024 3

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