“I think France mustn’t be afraid to make her voice heard. For too long we have repeatedly gone along with EU chimeras instead of defending our nation.”—French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour

The European wave of sanctions has reached the arts sector. Prominent Russian artists, such as Valery Gergiev and Anna Netrebko, are having their contracts terminated for “insufficient distancing” from Kremlin politics.

Never before has the approval of presidential candidates generated such tension: the deadline for the deposit of sponsorships was set for March 4th, so validation really came at the last minute for major candidates who were nevertheless guaranteed to gather at least 10% of the vote.

The latest IPCC report has once again painted a grim picture of man-made climate change, but skeptics call out its reliance on “implausibly fast models of warming” and flag it as “long on speculation, but short on facts.”

Conservatives, if they still go by that name, should not be bashful about re-asserting the university as a place of free thought and academic inquiry. If the prime minister wants to be taken seriously, he must guarantee that the bill immediately resumes its journey to the Queen’s desk.

“I would like to remember the words of Pius XII, a few days before the outbreak of the Second World War: ‘People should come back to their senses,’” Cardinal Parolin said.