Politik

Three years have passed since the morning of October 7, 2023, when Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups crossed into southern Israel, attacking kibbutzim, homes, roads and (…)

France has a money problem. More precisely, it has a debt and deficit problem. The French government is trying to reduce the public deficit from an estimated 5.4% of GDP in (…)

There are moments when we need to stop hiding behind careful wording. So let’s say it plainly: it’s shameful. Not shameful to be French. Certainly not. What is shameful is (…)

As the anger of secondary school pupils spreads across France, another battle is being waged – this time a political one: *La France insoumise* is accused by some within the (…)

Jordan Bardella’s latest response to the Mediapart investigation is worth analysing not so much for what it claims as for the argumentative strategy it employs. Following the (…)

Ever since Mediapart’s revelations about private conversations attributed to Jordan Bardella when he was a young activist with the National Front, one question has been causing (…)

Since Mediapart’s revelations about anti-Semitic and conspiracy-theory messages attributed to Jordan Bardella when he was a young activist with the National Front, the National (…)

Since the publication of Mediapart’s investigation into private conversations attributed to Jordan Bardella, a question has now arisen alongside that of the authenticity of the (…)

In the standoff that has now developed between Jordan Bardella and Mediapart, each side is putting forward its arguments. The leader of the National Rally categorically denies (…)

The case currently involving Jordan Bardella inevitably brings to mind another French controversy: the one that engulfed Yann Moix in 2019, when anti-Semitic and (…)

Mediapart’s revelations about Jordan Bardella’s alleged anti-Semitic writings have sent particular shockwaves through French Jewish circles. But to speak of ‘the Jewish (…)

This is a potentially serious case, but for the time being it requires a very clear distinction to be drawn between what Mediapart claims to have established, what Jordan (…)

With seven months to go until the 2027 presidential election, the polls suggest a political landscape that is almost set in stone. Marine Le Pen leads the voting intentions by (…)

At the age of 79, Susan Sarandon continues to put her political convictions into action, rather than merely paying lip service to them. The American actress, who won an Oscar (…)

In the United Kingdom, the government is putting social class back at the heart of equality policy For years, public equality policies in Western democracies have focused (…)

“Shit in the eyes”: it’s a brutal turn of phrase. But behind Alain Callède’s attack on the National Rally lies a political question that deserves better than mere insults: what (…)

There was a time when, if a leading actor, a popular singer, a renowned film director or a famous sportsman took a political stance, it was almost a major event. They would be (…)

It will no doubt take a little time to assess the full implications of the incident that has just rocked Ed Sheeran’s US tour. But one thing is already certain: what was (…)