French downgrade shows that Marine Le Pen's role in French public life is...
RICHARD WAGHORNE: Marine Le Pen was the only credible French political figure to recognise that the loss of France's triple-A rating profoundly compromises the rest of the political class.
View ArticleImmigration and unemployment but not Europe: Sarkozy's pick-n-mix referendums
RICHARD WAGHORNE: There is more than cynicism at Sarkozy’s frivolous decision to call two referendums on immigration and welfare reform but not the far more important matter of the future of the...
View ArticleThe defence accord with France is an irresponsible Blairite stunt to bolster...
You spend how much on defence? David Cameron has agreed a joint defence policy with French President Nicolas Sarkozy
View ArticleThe dangers of a subservient press, and how Dominique Strauss-Kahn could...
RICHARD WAGHORNE: Despite his reputation in Paris, Mr Strauss-Kahn was allowed very nearly to become the Socialist Party candidate without the media breathing a word about the risk to the dignity of...
View ArticleFrench elections 2012: Marine Le Pen is the only responsible vote in France
RICHARD WAGHORNE: Marine Le Pen remains, among an imperfect choice in urgent times, the only candidate capable of saving France’s control over her finances.
View ArticleFrance presidential election 2012: First round is a snapshot of so much...
RICHARD WAGHORNE: Short of another unforeseen twist to a dispiriting election, we are likely to watch a once great nation continue its fatalistic slouch into the mediocrity of late European social...
View ArticleThe European crisis is not the fault of capitalism but the result of eroding...
RICHARD WAGHORNE: A sure sign of escapism from political realities is the resolute misnaming of a crisis. This year will be the fourth since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
View ArticleFrench presidential election debate: The Elysee is in sight for Francois...
RICHARD WAGHORNE: Nicolas Sarkozy found himself marginally but firmly surpassed by Hollande, who will now almost certainly deliver a presidential victory to the French left for the first time since...
View ArticleFrancois Hollande wins French elections 2012: France has voted for decline...
RICHARD WAGHORNE: France has now fallen to a man who will aggravate his country’s critical weaknesses, surrender its sovereignty to Brussels, and watch French national identity continue to dissolve.
View ArticleIreland has now passed the point where it can honestly be deemed an...
A sober-minded observer of Irish history is unable to watch Ireland’s elective slouch into Euro-mediocrity without profound dismay. Ireland’s ‘Yes’ to the fiscal compact is its ‘No’ to the more...
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