The movement has dwindled and changed a lot in a year. All photos: AFP A year ago half the cars in my part of Normandy carried yellow badges of rebellion on their dashboards, writes John Lichfield. Now you can scarcely see a…

Opinion Here’s what Extinction Rebellion could learn from the Gilets Jaunes’ media strategy By Oliver Haynes Image by Kiril Stanoev Less than a month ago, Extinction Rebellion faced one of its first major challenges when two activists were filmed disrupting the smooth…

Phạm Quốc Đạt ‏/ @Crocodile29292 / Twitter The golden 100million figure may well be reached by the time of the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024, but popularity is not eternal, writes award-winning French-Algerian journalist Nabila Ramdani in her latest column for…

Houellebecq takes on subjects that no British author would dare to consider (Getty) Serotonin By Michel Houellebecq, William Heinemann, 309pp, £20/$27 Michel Houellebecq, the French novelist and professional contrarian, delights in puncturing metro-liberal orthodoxies and shocking the reader with descriptions of internet…

Image: Chris McAndrew The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is urging HM Treasury to ensure net zero is funded fairly, revealing it will publish its advice on the sixth carbon budget earlier than expected. In a letter officially welcoming Simon Clarke, who…

As a technology journalist, I’m constantly traveling internationally for conferences and events. Out of sheer curiosity, I tallied the numbers up and was shocked to realize that I spent three long, lonely months of last year living in hotels and cramped airplane…

A protester on the Pont au Change bridge in Paris on 8 October 2019. It’s not just Westminster that’s occupied by the climate activists of Extinction Rebellion (XR). Since Monday afternoon, tents have bloomed on Paris’s Châtelet square, with hundreds of XR…

The French president’s predecessors provide useful reminders of how not to talk about immigration Stung by the gilets jaunes revolt, the continuing rise of the far-right and the persistent slur that his La République en Marche is a purely bourgeois party, the…

Printable version “We’re here, we’re here, even if Macron doesn’t want it, we’re here, for the honour of the workers and for a better world.” One of the songs of the gilets jaunes . The life of a political activist is often…

LOOK BACK a year, and remember how disquieting European politics seemed. Matteo Salvini, by far the most popular politician in Italy, and France’s equally xenophobic Marine Le Pen had just teamed up with Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former strategist, as part of…