France may be the “country of science” but it is being poorly served by a president who is responsible for one of its biggest policy failures.
On 18 June 1940, General de Gaulle broadcast from London calling on all Frenchmen to refuse to accept that the loss of the Battle of
It is an old sepia-tinted image: a smirking youngster on a bicycle, surrounded by admiring elders applauding the talents of the wunderkind. That was the
For the Western commentariat, Emmanuel Macron’s election signalled a retreat from 2016’s populist electoral insurrections. So it may strike the British reader as bizarre that
For most of the twentieth century, right up until the UK joined the Common Market, Fleet Street took Europe seriously. There wasn’t a national newspaper
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