Jensen Hawkes explores Marine Le Pen and wider French politics, warning his readers to not underestimate her and her party’s capability of winning the 2027 French presidential election.

In the first instalment of his column ‘Radical Europe’, Joe Tresidder explores the enigmatic figure of Giorgia Meloni and her meteoric rise to power in Italy.

Lucy McCulloch interrogates the relationship between warfare and social media in this spirited piece, critiquing the nature of ‘chocolate-box-ified’ solidarity with Ukraine in the West.

In light of the landmark 2021 decision of the French Administrative Court, recognising the French government’s failure in tackling the climate emergency, Jamilya Bertram calls for more action to protect French society and identity from the climate crisis’s devasting effects.