On the day an opinion poll predicted that Marine Le Pen would thrash any political opponent at the next presidential election, a judge in Paris virtually banned her from taking part. The president of the court handed down a harsh…
A French court sentenced Marine Le Pen to four years in prison and banned her from standing for public office for five years. It seems likely that the court may forgo incarceration for an ankle monitor, and it is quite…
Monday morning’s edition of the RealClear Politics news aggregator contained a very interesting manifestation of their usual juxtaposition of left vs. right thought pieces. It looked like this… The articles themselves were no less notable in their approach to the…
Everything is happening so fast that, as a journalist, I sometimes find it hard to pause and analyze the facts. It is said that Trump’s collaborators are exhausted by their extremely heavy workload, but on the other side of the…
Jean-Marie Le Pen has died, aged 96, on the same day that France solemnly honored the victims of the Islamist terrorist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo ten years earlier. Charlie Hebdo had once tried to have Le Pen’s…
The French at Wimbledon Were you to ask anyone at SW 19 when was the last time a Frenchman won the All-England Championships at Wimbledon, classiest tournament in tennis, you would get a blank stare. Without a copy of Bud…
The French Parliamentary second round elections on July 7 have delivered unexpected results with the left’s New Popular Front winning a relative majority with 172-192 of the 577 seats, followed by Macron’s Presidential Majority with 150-170 seats and National Rally with…
Even at the top of the right-wing National Rally in France, the great replacement of the autochthonous French seems unstoppable. On the hustings for the European elections, its successful young leader, Jordan Bardella, proudly presents himself as “a Frenchman of…
Those cheeky, ungrateful and xenophobic Poles really went too far this time around! In their resistance against immigration, they have resorted to “blackmail” against the European Union (EU), according to the left-leaning Dutch newspaper NRC. Which also accuses critics of…
