16 Jun 2026 - 1:00am

Will France’s banlieues wreck the World Cup? The Left is fanning the flames

Andrew Hussey

12.11

The Bataclan massacre still stalks France Sectarian rage won’t be soothed by more memorials

Andrew Hussey

07.12

Notre-Dame won’t redeem Macron The shiny new cathedral resembles a civic town hall

Jonathan Glancey

08.08

France has already won the Olympics The nation's political fissures have been forgotten

Agnes Poirier

23.07

The cartoonist who had no fear Robert Crumb walked the line between art and trash

James Riding

13.12

Down and out in the Paris Olympics Refugees are being evicted from the glitzy development

Cole Stangler

14.07

The French need a revolution The meaning of Bastille Day has been forgotten

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

13.10

France is haunted by civil war Jihadis and drug lords rule the banlieues

Francois Valentin

23.08

Writers shouldn’t submit to Islamists We must stifle our fears about Rushdie

Leila Slimani

11.04

How Marine Le Pen conquered Normandy Rural France faces an existential crisis

John Lichfield

01.03

Putin has secured a Macron victory The French Right is on the wrong side of history

John Lichfield

08.12

Valérie Pécresse won’t save France Her cheerful toughness won't bring change

John Lichfield