Francois Valentin

François Valentin is a political analyst and co-host of the Uncommon Decency podcast.

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Emmanuel Macron can’t keep the Right out forever His election gamble has only delayed the inevitable

Francois Valentin

08 Jul 2024

How National Rally captured the centre

Francois Valentin

01 Jul 2024

Will Europe heed Macron’s ‘death’ warning? France's President painted a dark future for the continent in a speech yesterday

Francois Valentin

26 Apr 2024

Will France be the victim of a new jihad? The resignation of a high school teacher over Islamist threats has rocked the country

Francois Valentin

29 Mar 2024

Napoleon is failed Anglo propaganda This Frenchman was not impressed with Ridley Scott's new film

Francois Valentin

24 Nov 2023

Marine Le Pen is now France’s second most popular politician The RN figurehead has quietly surged in new polling

Francois Valentin

07 Sep 2023

Wakanda Forever borrows from Wagner Group playbook The film's anti-French tropes lean into the Russian militia's propaganda

Francois Valentin

14 Feb 2023

France’s moderate Right is drifting into irrelevance Les Républicains is surrounded by parties with more charismatic figureheads

Francois Valentin

07 Dec 2022

France is haunted by civil war

Francois Valentin

13 Oct 2022

Michel Houellebecq: the Left has become mean The writer gave a rare address to monarchist group Action Française

Francois Valentin

29 Jul 2022

Emmanuel Macron has lost his sparkle He is no longer the optimistic revolutionary that he once framed himself as

Francois Valentin

25 Apr 2022

Emmanuel Macron’s pique at Boris’s Ukraine trip The French President is jealous of the praise the PM is receiving from Zelenskyy

Francois Valentin

22 Apr 2022

The poison in France’s veins

Francois Valentin

19 Apr 2022