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Syria: Rebels SAM-up; US increases aid; France recognises opposition; border...
Tweet There was encouraging news for the Syrian rebels today, with success on the ground and increasing international support. The rebels’ capacity to take on the might of the Assad regime has been...
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Anti-immigration Copé succeeds Sarkozy as UMP leader – but don’t rule out a...
Tweet After the crushing defeat of the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy after just one term in power six months ago, members of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) have finally voted on a...
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Markit: Eurozone manufacturing “shows signs of moderating” (while the UK’s...
TweetIn Markit’s latest report, the eurozone manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 46.3 in December, from 46.2 in November. A reading below 50 indicates contraction. This a rare bit of...
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Britain set to send “sizeable amount” of troops to back France as Mali donor...
TweetDavid Cameron has said Britain is prepared to send a “sizeable amount” of troops in support of French forces battling Islamist militias in Mali. In a phone call on Sunday night, the prime minister...
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Attack on Tottenham fans coincides with report showing ‘unprecedented rise’...
TweetAn apparent anti-Semitic attack on Tottenham fans in Lyon, France, coincides with the publication of a report showing a 58 per cent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the country in 2012. Three...
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Lessons for Labour from France: manage expectations
TweetFrancois Hollande’s popularity recently hit a record low for a French head of state, with a whopping 67 per cent of the French population disapproving of the President. This has dropped a whole 10...
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French opponents of same-sex marriage have taken homophobic discourse mainstream
TweetRebecca Suner is a journalist from France who writes about politics and social issues on both sides of the Channel Same-sex marriage should become law in France today, as the bill goes through its...
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Let’s hope Clément Méric’s tragic death will ward off this wave of extremism...
TweetRebecca Suner is a journalist from France who writes about politics and social issues on both sides of the Channel Last Thursday in France, fascism claimed a life. Clément Méric, a young trade...
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Opinion: It’s time the EU faced its inner demons
TweetJohn Stephenson is a politics student at Lancaster University Those keeping an eye out for economic optimism will have been pleased by the news from the Eurozone over the last two weeks, as the...
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France’s Front National brand detox is going nowhere
TweetFrance’s far-right Front National (FN) has been rising in the opinion polls of late – one showing that one in four French voters would back the party in next spring’s European elections. As part...
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Telegraph readers would rather live in socialist France than in the UK
TweetCity AM’s Allister Heath is just the latest person to hit out at the French socialist government of Francois Hollande. The bad news is coming thick and fast for our Gallic neighbours. The country...
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So how does it work, the Quenelle?
Tweet David Hirsh is a sociology lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, and editor of EngageOnline Nicolas Anelka scored a Premier League goal for West Brom and at that moment, when the cameras...
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France: President Hollande caves in to right-wing hysteria on family law
TweetAndrew Coates blogs at Tendance Coatesy “(Reuters) – France’s Socialist government dropped plans on Monday to update family law this year after huge weekend protests by conservatives against...
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The far-right and radical Islamists are finding common ground in homophobia,...
TweetDr. Erin Marie Saltman is a Quilliam research project officer In the UK the radical right and radical Islamists are seen as obvious mortal enemies to one other, each producing the rhetoric and...
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Hollande is lost: the Left should speak against the German right’s obsessions
TweetThe rift in the French government speaks more broadly to what the left-wing narrative should sound like on the austerity obsessions of Germany and the European Union From afar the actions of...
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For all its faults, the world needs a strong France
TweetAnd lack of economic ‘reform’ is thanks to the right rather than the left Alexis de Toqueville wrote of France “Has there ever been any nation on earth which was so full of contrasts, and so...
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The myth of migrants ‘flocking’ to Britain’s ‘soft touch’ benefits system
TweetThe desire to ‘get on’ isn’t confined to affluent Westerners The mayor of Calais has been sounding off like a Daily Mail editorial. On immigration, Britain is a ‘soft touch’ and its benefits...
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Charlie Hebdo: No excuses – just murder
TweetThose who use violence to silence those with whom they disagree should never be appeased While undoubtedly a cliché, the saying that Islamic extremists ‘hate our freedom’ was never as silly as...
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Just as with other religions, we must be allowed to offend Islam
TweetAs long as radical Islam remains immune from criticism a moderate version will struggle to emerge The Charlie Hebdo massacre is a watershed moment in dealing with Islamist terrorism. But we’ve had...
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Charlie Hebdo: Dismantling nine mistaken assumptions about the Paris atrocities
TweetTehmina Kazi of British Muslims for Secular Democracy looks at nine mistaken assumptions doing the rounds about the murders that took place at the offices of Charlie Hebdo yesterday False...
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