People across the globe have been mesmerised by the US elections, horrified by Trump’s failure to concede, and entertained by a certain landscape gardening business. I asked my colleagues what we’d all missed in the rest of the world.
France cracks down on Muslims and all who defend them
Can Europe Make It? editor Rosemary Bechler is alarmed by growing Islamophobia from the French government. In reaction to the horrific murder of school teacher Samuel Paty, President Macron has been “targetting a whole load of institutions and individuals who had nothing to do with the murder”.
His government and its allied intellectuals have also got in their sights “anyone who stands up with Muslims against the existing discrimination,” she told me.
