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James Tidmarsh

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Could the Chinese embassy be an opportunity for Britain?

20.01.2026 40

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France’s bistros are dying

09.01.2026 80

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Trump's Greenland grab would expose Europe's ultimate weakness

07.01.2026 30

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The New Year's Eve fire has shattered the myth of Swiss invulnerability

03.01.2026 50

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Metro attack / France is becoming used to gratuitous violence

31.12.2025 40

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France is becoming used to gratuitous violence

30.12.2025 40

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Paris is a city afraid

06.12.2025 40

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Violence is being normalised against the National Rally

01.12.2025 30

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The report that lays bare France’s Islamist networks

25.11.2025 30

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Europe / France’s integration nightmare

23.11.2025 30

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France’s integration nightmare

23.11.2025 30

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The fall of Europe’s public service broadcasters

11.11.2025 30

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The French state is ashamed of its rose queens

08.11.2025 30

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The tragedy of the Shein takeover of Paris

06.11.2025 30

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Britain’s trains are dangerously exposed

02.11.2025 30

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Macron has declared war on free speech

02.11.2025 30

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Should mocking Brigitte Macron be a crime?

29.10.2025 20

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Crown jewels / The Louvre heist shames France

20.10.2025 30

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Macron survives again – but at what cost?

16.10.2025 20

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Macron has to choose: humiliation or defeat?

13.10.2025 40

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In reappointing Lecornu, Macron is clinging to power

11.10.2025 30

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Could Marine Le Pen save Macron’s presidency?

07.10.2025 20

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How the judiciary took down Nicolas Sarkozy

26.09.2025 30

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French town halls are weaponising the Palestinian flag

23.09.2025 20

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The tyranny of tipping

19.09.2025 30

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Sébastien Lecornu is Macron’s last hope

10.09.2025 20

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Marine Le Pen is calling the shots now

09.09.2025 20

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France has been plunged into crisis – again

08.09.2025 20

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Will the Bloquons Tout strikes cripple France?

05.09.2025 20

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The folly of blaming boomers for France’s financial crisis

29.08.2025 20

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Europe / Migrant riots have come to Switzerland

27.08.2025 30

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In defence of Notting Hill Carnival

26.08.2025 30

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Is this the end for Emmanuel Macron?

26.08.2025 30

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The death of a streamer is being used to stifle free speech

25.08.2025 40

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The awkward truth about tourists in Paris

24.08.2025 30

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The sad decline of the French village fête

16.08.2025 30

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Could the Arctic be key to ending the Ukraine war?

11.08.2025 40

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Donald Trump is humiliating Switzerland

06.08.2025 30

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Alpine order / What we could learn from Swiss bins

04.08.2025 30

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Why France is cracking down on topless tourists

28.07.2025 30

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Remembering Jonathan Miller

08.07.2025 20

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France wants to know the true cost of immigration

25.06.2025 30

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Has Trump brought peace to the Congo?

24.06.2025 20

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