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Published in: openSecurityMarine Le Pen, the radical right and French Islamophobia - Part IINicolas Lebourg continues (see part one) to explore how the Toulouse events contributed to shaping Marine Le Pen’s...
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Published in: Home1 May: For Hollande, cracking jokes is no laughing matterIn today’s instalment of Marlière Across La Manche, City analysts are crying wolf at the “Mr.Normal” of French...
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Published in: HomeFrance: towards a new right
The first round of France’s presidential election leaves the incumbent president, Nicolas Sarkozy, in a tight...
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Published in: openSecurityThe politics of interpreting Toulouse
The use of anti-Semitism as the main narrative for “Toulouse” led to an internationalising step in the depiction of...
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Published in: Home30 April: Which infamy, Mr.President?Sorting out the men from the boys. Today’s instalment of Marlière Across La Manche
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Published in: Home29 April: Muammar Gaddafi’s ghost bites backToday’s instalment of Marlière Across La Manche continues with a short survey of media coverage of the French...
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Published in: Home28 April: Which Europe?
Europe has featured in most candidates’ speeches and proposals. But which one? Today’s instalment of Marlière Across...
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Published in: Home26 April: Mass rallies are backDespite previous predictions of voter apathy and dull campaigns, we are witnessing a real presidential race — with...
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Published in: Home25 April: Marshall Pétain puts in a cameo appearanceThe rapprochement of the traditional right with its extreme is progressing fast, with the “de-demonisation” of the...
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Published in: Home24 April: What will Marine Le Pen’s voters do?The president has confessed that if he had not matched Le Pen’s hard-right rhetoric, he would by now find himself in...
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Published in: Home23 April: Nicolas Sarkozy fights for his political lifeCharles de Gaulle once said that the French presidential election was “an encounter between the nation and a man”...
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Published in: openSecurityWho is the enemy Other?
In ganging up on housing estates, in racist attacks or inter-state brinkmanship, how does the enemy become the...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Toulouse killings and the radical right - part IThere were some good reasons to suspect the French extreme right of theToulouse killings. In this first article,...
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Published in: HomeFrance: a politics out of time
The tragedy in Toulouse has changed the atmosphere of France's presidential-election campaign. The emergence of a...
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Published in: HomeThe debate France urgently needs after the Toulouse attacks
In 'sensitive urban zones' where a third of residents live below the poverty line and unemployment among young...
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Published in: HomeThe 2012 Parti Socialiste primary: a beauty contest?More people have had a say in the Socialist candidate’s selection process thanks to the ‘open primary’ experiment....
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Published in: HomeWhat is Sarkozysm?
Sarkozy embodies a turning point in French right-wing history: not just the French version of the "New Right" but a...
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Published in: HomeThe Holocaust and genocide: loose talk, bad action
The dangers of genocide denial are widely recognised. But the politics of "genocide mobilisation" - and the legal...
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Published in: HomeFrance’s sombre destiny
While history tells us that Marine Le Pen would not stand a chance in the second round of the presidential...
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Published in: HomeWaugh, not awe for Houellebecq
James Warner’s review essay of Houellebecq prompts the author to try to simplify Houellebecq - more an old-fashioned...
