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John Keiger

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Defence cooperation with France would be a bad idea for Britain

Defence cooperation with France would be a bad idea for Britain
13.03.2025 8

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How Macron beat Starmer to Trump

25.02.2025 4

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Starmer must protect Britain’s defence industry

17.02.2025 6

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How Jean-Marie Le Pen lives on

11.01.2025 4

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The irony of Starmer’s Armistice Day visit to France

Yesterday morning, the British Prime Minister travelled to Paris at the invitation of the French President to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the...

12.11.2024 30

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Was Germany to blame for the outbreak of the first world war?

Wars begin and end in controversy. The war that ended 106 years ago today with the armistice of 11 November 1918 carried the germ of controversy...

11.11.2024 10

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Lest we forget / What the First World War can teach us about the Third

It is our duty on Remembrance Sunday to honour the fallen. But to do justice to their sacrifice, we should also remember why the world descended...

10.11.2024 4

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Why France’s media is keeping quiet about Michel Barnier’s health

France’s 73-year-old prime minister, Michel Barnier, underwent surgery last weekend for a lesion on his upper neck. According to the government...

01.11.2024 9

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Does France need a government?

France has been without an official government for seven weeks, the longest in the history of the Fifth Republic. A caretaker prime minister and...

21.08.2024 2

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Macron’s lavish spending is jeopardising French finances

In the last years of Louis XVI’s reign, French finances were in a parlous state. State debt had ballooned, its servicing became exorbitant, and...

02.08.2024 10

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Even the Olympics can’t unite France

Writing of the state of France in the twilight of the fateful Second Empire, the left-wing journalist Henri Rochefort observed: ‘France contains 36...

31.07.2024 1

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