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Six tribes go to war »

With the last three tournaments being won by three different grand slam winning sides it would be a brave person who confidently predicted the outcome of this year’s competition. Having beaten Wales in Cardiff, England look to have cemented their crede...

Wed 09 Feb 2011 by Mike Mawdsley, Laurence Wilson, Jamie Timson | Read more »

The New Entente »

A new defence treaty between Britain and France, forming the Combined Joint Expeditionary Force, has been signed and sealed. The measures agreed upon by both governments include a combined expeditionary force, a sharing of aircraft carriers and even...

Wed 10 Nov 2010 by Richard Martyn-Hemphill | Read more »

The case for trade unions »

The French government recently passed a rather silly law. In brief, it will require certain sections of society to work an extra two years in order to qualify for a full pension. It is not a crushingly evil plan, but by the scale of the protests, one m...

Wed 10 Nov 2010 by Phil McGuinness | Read more »

Veil ban: It's not you, it's me »

Reading the opinions of Nigel Farage MEP and Gaffur Hussain in this edition of the Journal, it would appear that the dominant reasoning behind proposals to ban the veil worn by Muslim women—either the niqab in its purely facial manifestation, or ...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 | Read more »

Children of the Jungle »

Children of the Jungle

At 7.30am on 22 September, a day after the Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, French riot police moved into a plot of land on the outskirts of the port city of Calais where some 270 migrants and asylum seekers, mostly from Afghanistan, had b...

Wed 25 Nov 2009 by William Spindler | Read more »

The Diplomat's Wife »

The French experience of the Second Gulf War has not been a particularly edifying one in terms of its public image. While the worst that was said of French efforts to prevent the conflict from coming to pass—“cheese- eating surrender monkey...

Fri 21 Nov 2008 by Paris Gourtsoyannis, Katia Sand | Read more »

The catacombs of Paris »

Parisian Catacombs

This May marks the 40th anniversary of the radical student riots of 1968, when thousands of students backed by ethnic minorities rebelled in a series of anti-government protests worldwide. Whilst student movements led to varying degrees of politic...

Thu 24 Apr 2008 by Demian Hobby | Read more »

Sarkozy's French Revolution »

Dr David Howarth

Is France doomed to relative economic decline and worsening social strife? A bloated public sector, high state spending, high corporate and payroll taxes and a rigid labour market are major drags on the French economy. Growth has trailed that of the UK...

Thu 14 Feb 2008 by Dr David Howarth | Read more »

Secret restorers of the Panthéon clock cleared of lawbreaking »

Inside the Pantheon

Four members of a secret organisation, known as the Undergunther, were released by the Paris Court of Justice on Friday 23 December. From September 2005 to September 2006 they had occupied the Panthéon, the famous cathedral in the Latin Q...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 | Read more »

Student protests paralyse universities in France  »

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Moves by the French government to privatise universities has seen mass protest from students all over the country. The protests began at the end of last month and last Friday 41 universities were disturbed, with more protests expected to follow....

Mon 19 Nov 2007 | Read more »

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