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A new generation of politicians of colour is emerging in France. The backlash speaks volumes

A new generation of politicians of colour is emerging in France. The backlash speaks volumes

Saint-Denis is just over 9km from the centre of Paris but is in the poorest department in all of metropolitan France, a region marked by unemployment,...

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon is problematic, but ostracising France’s radical left is a failed strategy

As the results of the French local elections sink in, it is useful to reflect on the shifting moral boundaries in public debate that characterised the...

23.03.2026 20

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Charlie Hebdo tried to humiliate me. Instead it debased the freedom of speech it symbolises

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Poor Nicolas Sarkozy. His hardline views on crime and punishment have come back to bite him

01.11.2025 10

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The Louvre raid was audacious - but nothing compared to the heist our political class just pulled off

21.10.2025 10

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France should have recognised Palestinian statehood years ago. The cynic in me asks: why now?

18.09.2025 10

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Macron has defied the will of the people. He leaves the French public no choice but to Block Everything

12.09.2025 10

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Footballer, journalist, fashionista: whatever French Muslims do, we’re treated as the enemy within

04.08.2025 20

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I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes?

01.07.2025 10

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A worshipper is murdered in a French mosque. How can this be ‘just another crime’?

13.05.2025 10

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Mayotte has been French for longer than Nice. Why is it still treated with colonial arrogance?

13.02.2025 10

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Rokhaya Diallo