It’s the third week of the student-led protests in Lyon, and the second that my university has been blockaded “in solidarity.” When clouds of tear gas drift onto my street on Saturday, it’s an almost ...

Rioters in France are rarely jailed and so far the sentences given to those arrested on Saturday have been derisory ...

Could deep civil unrest, a severe financial crisis, or both, before the 2027 election tempt Emmanuel Macron to invoke de ...

Sarah Helm, the wife of Britain’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell, has had a busy 24 hours. The Spectator revealed yesterday that she had (among other ...

The Tories are taking the fight to polygamous and incestuous marriage today, with a Bill to end welfare recognition of men with multiple wives. Richard Holden’s Social Security (Marriage) Bill would ...

On the morning of 19 July 1972, around 400 communist insurgents launched a surprise attack on the Omani coastal town of Mirbat, opening up with a mortar bombardment before advancing towards the ...

Given that the French-speaking world gave us the science of semiotics, they would be the first to recognise that the Palestine flag, as it is being hoisted and brandished across the French republic at ...

The left-wing Canary news website is to close, blaming debanking and a ‘vicious campaign of malicious lies’ conducted by its very own staff. In other words, anyone and everyone is to blame but the ...

A summit between Xi Jinping, Putin and Trump in China is being planned to discuss the details of a Yalta-style carve-up of ...

By contrast, Britain seemingly plans to impose a tax regime that would make it virtually impossible for them to survive.

The creator of the ‘Palestine poppy’ is an Oxford-educated paediatrician who has written books for Muslim teenagers ...

Andy Burnham’s government is reportedly pressing ahead with further restrictions on promoting unhealthy foods with deals like ‘buy one get one free’. These regulations were introduced by Boris Johnson ...