Let’s block everything: protesters plan to ‘pull the brake’ on France
National malaise under President Macron is moving towards a general strike — campaigners who want to abolish political parties have planned a day of disruption| www.thetimes.com
National malaise under President Macron is moving towards a general strike — campaigners who want to abolish political parties have planned a day of disruption| www.thetimes.com
A perceptive journalist once said that Donald Trump should be taken “seriously but not literally”. The same could have been said about Charles de Gaulle. On the opening page of his memoirs, he wrote that his “certain idea of France” was “like the princess in the fairy tale” and there was always a sense in which de Gaulle knew that he was telling his countrymen a kind of fairy tale. For example, Paris was not, as he said in his speech of 25 August 1944, “liberated by itself”. T...| UnHerd
There’s good news. And there’s bad news. The International Monetary Fund won’t be descending on 11 Downing Street any time soon. The situation of the UK in 1976 is not comparable with today’s — unfortunately, it is incomparably worse.| UnHerd
