Monday’s paper
September 9, 2026
The resistible rise of Mrs Le Pen
The left has lost its post-war cultural dominance everywhere. The world is leaning to the right, but, like the British two years ago, the Swedes may soon remind us that the centre and the left can win elections in a right-wing world, just as the right used to win them in a left-wing world.
The left has lost its post-war cultural dominance everywhere. The world is leaning to the right, but, like the British two years ago, the Swedes may soon remind us that the centre and the left can win elections in a right-wing world, just as the right used to win them in a left-wing world.
Monday’s paper
April 7, 2025
The club of thieves and liars
It is unprecedented. Never before have we seen thieves, real thieves convicted of organized theft, call for a protest demonstration against the judgment that condemned them. We see thugs parading after their release from prison. We also see them celebrating the failure of the justice system to prove their guilt, but this Sunday meeting of the National Rally, no, that…
It is unprecedented. Never before have we seen thieves, real thieves convicted of organized theft, call for a protest demonstration against the judgment that condemned them. We see thugs parading after their release from prison. We also see them celebrating the failure of the justice system to prove their guilt, but this Sunday meeting of the National Rally, no, that was a real first.
