picture taken on June 6, 2014 shows the village of Arromanches. Photo: AFP/JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD Many voters in rural France remain unhappy and resentful of the government in Paris, writes John Lichfield. The arrival of high-speed internet and new roads should be celebrated,…

Joseph Chabord; Antoine Gyori / Corbis / Getty; The Atlantic In October, Éric Zemmour, the best-selling French author and media personality who has won a devoted following by applying a throwback intellectual sheen to a familiar populist xenophobia, overtook France’s far-right standard-bearer,…

With COP26 still fresh in the minds of many in the energy industry, let us start by imagining a single policy, that if imposed on the fossil fuel industry, could if enforced consistently stop their products from causing global warming within a…

Notre-Dame: The Soul of France by Agnès Poirier outlines how the worlds of politics and art would eventually determine the shape of the reconstruction effort. Photograph: AP Photo/Jacques Brinon Notre-Dame: The Soul of France In April 2019 the world watched, aghast, as,…

× “MOVE fast and break things” is supposedly the mantra of Silicon Valley start-ups and new “disruptor” companies. And it also seems to be the watchword of this Johnson-led Tory government and in particular, the top adviser, Dominic Cummings. But, in their…

In its latest end of year accounts, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group, has reported that its total income has increased by around £75,000 over the last year – an increase of almost 20…

A planned rise in petrol and diesel taxes in France in 2018 sparked the gilets jaune protests FRENCH-style, yellow-vest climate protests could happen in Scotland if moves to cut emissions are perceived as unfair, ministers have been warned. The Just Transition Commission,…

Be sure to watch live the Council of Europe’s Conference of INGOs celebration of World NGO Day, to highlight the importance of civil society as an essential democratic actor, but one which faces too many restrictions today. Held at the Council of…

Russian artist and activist Pyotr Pavlensky during a press interview in Paris on 22 February 2020. On Valentine’s Day it emerged that the Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky, now a political refugee in France, was behind the publication of a private video on…

By offering asylum to the persecuted publisher of WikiLeaks , France’s Macron would enhance his status in myriad European latitudes and all across the Global South, writes Pepe Escobar. I t’s quite fitting that the – imperially pre-determined – judicial fate of…