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Colonising gender identity

Two new books, both by authors critical of gender identity ideology, take on the challenge of exploring the tide of sex denialism currently sweeping a

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Emmanuel Macron at a joint news conference following their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris in December 2017.

Israel: France’s foster child

France has been a key contributor to Project Israel and its lethal, life-destroying remit.

“Stigma: The machinery of inequality” by Imogen Tyler (Zed Books, 2020)

Book Review: “Stigma: The machinery of inequality” by Imogen Tyler underlines the limitations of sociology in understanding it

An ambitious new study of stigma that falls short on a number of counts.

President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron, after voting at a polling station in Le Touquet in the second round of regional elections on June 27.

No champagne for Macron, Marine Le Pen

The triumph of traditional parties of the left and right, together with record levels of abstention, in the regional elections offer little cheer for

Karen villagers taking refuge in the KNU Brigade 5 region in Myanmar’s Karen State, after air strikes in the area. This screengrab is from KNU Doo Pla Ya District video footage taken on April 7.

People of Myanmar resist army rule

Confronting ever more deadly military repression, and with little support from outside, the people of Myanmar are somehow finding ways to fight back.

Nicolas Sarkozy, former French president, at an interview by the television channel TF1 on March 3.

From ‘bling-bling’ to Sing Sing: the calamitous fall of Nicolas Sarkozy

The conviction of a former president on corruption charges is a major humiliation for the French state.

The Gilets Jaunes protest near the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on November 24.

Yellow fury

Anger against the Emmanuel Macron government over its decision to increase taxes on fuel from January 1 erupts on the streets across France in the for

Islamophobia a la France

Jim Wolfreys’ important study documents the risible, theatre-of-the-absurd quality to the actions the French state has resorted to over recent years t

French President Emmanuel Macron reviews troops before delivering his New Year wishes to the Armed Forces on the French war ship Dixmude at the Naval base in Toulon, France, January 19, 2018. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier

Military thrust in pursuit of ‘greatness’

President Emmanuel Macron blasts the bugle for compulsory national service and a giant hike in military spending. Although couching the message in a r

Revolutionaries with ribbons of sea-green

The author takes us into the very tissue of contention, reconnecting us with the fire and passion of the English Revolution and enabling the Levellers

Challenging mythology

The scholarship of Alan Taylor’s book, published before the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, suggests that Trumpism might be less an aberration than

Conjuring up Cromwell

Through steadfast attachment to the idea of historical fiction, Hilary Mantel seems to be driving a fresh, 21st century exploration of its possibiliti