A protester shouts to French police officers, outside the Pantheon monument, in the Latin quarter of Paris, Friday, July 12, 2019. French police in Paris have removed scores of people who invaded the famed Pantheon where illustrious French figures are buried, in…

Meeting ahead of Biarritz G7 summit takes place with ‘international order at crossroads’ Russian president Vladimir Putin and French president Emmanuel Macron: met to discuss the way ahead. Photograph: Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/Kremlin President Emmanuel Macron positioned himself as an intermediary between Russia, Europe…

In Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, The Periphery and the Future of France , Christophe Guilluy sets out the predicament of the ‘left-behind’ regions of France and excoriates the elites that have presided over their decline. While Guilluy does make a novel…

Yellow Vests walking in Oloron, France. Photo: Robert Moriarty After being bugged unmercifully by a couple of my so-called friends, I finally sat down in early January to write a tome about investing in resource stocks. It took me sixteen days to…

In the highly entertaining Channel 4 drama about the 2016 referendum campaign "Brexit: The Uncivil War," Benedict Cumberbatch, playing the mastermind of the Vote Leave campaign, is sometimes found crouched in the narrow pantry where he retreats to think. It’s not hard…

Getty Images Europe works best, as the old quip has it, with the Russians out, the Germans down, and the Americans in. Today’s new European order has the Russians up, the Germans on the way down, the Americans potentially bowing out, Britons…

WE can’t say we weren’t warned. Mrs May’s legacy eco-lunacy – her net zero carbon policy by 2050 – is going to come at great cost. The former Chancellor of the Exchequer forecast a trillion pounds but others are already predicting that…

Hundreds join an authorised Yellow Vests march in Paris in May, before numbers starting dropping. Some 100 Yellow Vests sprayed the offices of MP Patrick Vignal with yellow and green paint. The member for Hérault, in the Occitanie region, becomes one of…

Tourism in France has seen a boost in the second part of the year, especially among high-end hotels Tourism in France has strongly recovered from a difficult start to the year, which saw a drop in visitors at the peak of the…

I’ve never been to a protest activity the past couple of years, even if I feel like I could have joined several. In a year’s time in my city alone, there would have been plenty. Nonetheless, protests still continue to engross me,…