Francois Valentin

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

Macron’s record low approval marks twilight of presidency

Francois Valentin

22 Sep 2025

How the boomers crippled France

Francois Valentin

10 Sep 2025

Gaza is Macron’s last chance to prove himself on the world stage

Francois Valentin

14 Aug 2025

France’s budget crisis won’t be solved by rearmament

Francois Valentin

17 Jul 2025

Macron and Starmer face the world with diminished authority

Francois Valentin

08 Jul 2025

France’s latest culture war flashpoint: air conditioning

Francois Valentin

03 Jul 2025

Jordan Bardella could split the French Right

Francois Valentin

01 Apr 2025

Emmanuel Macron can’t keep the Right out forever

Francois Valentin

08 Jul 2024

How National Rally captured the centre

Francois Valentin

01 Jul 2024

Will Europe heed Macron’s ‘death’ warning?

Francois Valentin

26 Apr 2024

Will France be the victim of a new jihad?

Francois Valentin

29 Mar 2024

Napoleon is failed Anglo propaganda

Francois Valentin

24 Nov 2023

Marine Le Pen is now France’s second most popular politician

Francois Valentin

07 Sep 2023

Wakanda Forever borrows from Wagner Group playbook

Francois Valentin

14 Feb 2023

France’s moderate Right is drifting into irrelevance

Francois Valentin

07 Dec 2022

France is haunted by civil war

Francois Valentin

13 Oct 2022

Michel Houellebecq: the Left has become mean

Francois Valentin

29 Jul 2022

Emmanuel Macron has lost his sparkle

Francois Valentin

25 Apr 2022

Emmanuel Macron’s pique at Boris’s Ukraine trip

Francois Valentin

22 Apr 2022

The poison in France’s veins

Francois Valentin

19 Apr 2022