The Rise of Emmanuel Macron
News last week that former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was backing Presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron is but the latest windfall for the man increasingly likely to become France’s next leader. Criticisms of Macron’s youth and inexperience are countered by...
Tony Blair is back on the pitch, but he and his fellow centrists are still playing last season’s game
Read Article This article was also featured in The Telegraph. Among the many things that Tony Blair once did with consummate skill was to keep a football in the air in a game of head tennis with Kevin Keegan in 1995. Like politicians, footballers have a hard time...
The French Presidential Election: Voting and Polling
This spring, France will elect its eighth President under the Fifth Republic. 71 candidates are currently looking to participate in the first round of the election on 23 April, although only those who obtain 500 ‘parainages’ from elected representatives will be...
In and Out: White Papers Past and Present
Like so much of the Brexit process, the publication of last week’s white paper, The United Kingdom’s exit from and new partnership with the European Union, marks a historic moment. It seems relevant, therefore, to compare that paper with a similarly momentous, yet...
