I am filled with a menacing fear for the future
The Titanic on the horizon haunts my imagination
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Only a Burnham-Streeting alliance can save Labour
It’s not impossible
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Gisèle Pelicot’s battle isn’t over
Shame is changing sides, but it’s a work in progress
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Michel Houellebecq’s mature ejaculation
In his new collection of poems, the novelist has become darker than ever
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Inside France’s publishing wars
Also: my double-edged retirement, and a defence of London
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How Paris’s mayor helped the city breathe again
The outgoing mayor made her city more cyclable, and more breathable
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Gisèle Pelicot is not your hero
In her new memoir, Pelicot rejects the pedestal she has been put on
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Gisèle Pelicot shows no victim is safe from being shamed
Her astonishing act of bravery has changed society
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Was this French cowboy the first fascist?
The eccentric life of Marquis de Morès, anti-Semitic rabble-rouser
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Brigitte Bardot did not ask to be forgiven
And God Created Woman, and the trouble that followed
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Macron cannot accept how impotent he has become
If Marine Le Pen wins power, much of the blame will fall on Macron
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University’s all French to me
Also this week: losing to my daughter, and puffed-out Paris policemen
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France and the UK are declining together
They’re in a worse state than my old Ford C-Max
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How to sell priceless stolen jewels
The Mona Lisa won fame by being stolen, but returned, will the same happen to the Louvre jewels?
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The hidden revolution in France
Underneath these impotent protests, power is moving from the metropolitan bubble to the angry margins
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A glimpse into fractured France
Andrew Hussey’s book on a “divided nation” veers too close to the personal over the political when diagnosing the Fifth…
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“Block Everything” takes France by storm
Angry protesters see this as a sequel to the gilets jaunes movement.
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France rejects the medicine of austerity
The collapse of the François Bayrou’s economic agenda has tipped the country into political crisis.
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Don’t tell Emmanuel Macron – but he’s a normal politician now
The president’s ambitions were Jupiterian. Now they lie in ashes.
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Alsace’s wines defy its turbulent history
The French region has overcome a legacy of religious and political conflict to compete with its highly regarded neighbours.
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