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  • Thursday, 18 November, 2021
    Tony Barber
    France invokes the golden age of de Gaulle

    Candidates in next year’s presidential election vie with each other to claim the general’s legacy

  • Thursday, 5 September, 2019
    Frederick Studemann
    Otto von Bismarck is in the House as Brexit goes a bit Prussian

    The ‘Iron Chancellor’ serves as the more suitable model for the prime minister

  • Saturday, 17 August, 2019
    Julian Jackson
    Non! Boris Johnson is not de Gaulle

    The UK prime minister displays none of the general’s moral seriousness or sense of responsibility

  • Friday, 9 August, 2019
    John McTernan
    Boris Johnson is not Churchill but de Gaulle

    Political flux creates opportunities, but only a non-traditional Tory can seize them

  • Thursday, 11 April, 2019
    Philip Stephens
    Britain can now change its mind about Brexit

    Macron’s emergence as a latter-day de Gaulle should not stop a second referendum

  • Monday, 8 April, 2019
    News in-depthBrexit
    Emmanuel Macron ponders his de Gaulle moment with Brexit

    Fears grow that French president will say ‘Non’ and bundle UK out of the EU door

  • Monday, 18 June, 2018
    ObituaryGlobal Economy
    Fred Atkinson, economist, 1919-2018

    Civil servant played a key role in UK economic policy in the 1960s and 1970s

  • Thursday, 14 June, 2018
    FT Books Essay
    De Gaulle, Macron and the long shadow of French grandeur

    Julian Jackson’s masterful life of Charles de Gaulle holds timely warnings about the concentration of authority in the Élysée

  • Friday, 21 July, 2017
    Jonathan Fenby
    Emmanuel Macron lays claim to the mantle of de Gaulle

    Like the general, the French president aspires to rule above conventional politics

  • Sunday, 23 April, 2017
    French politics
    Decision day for France in cliffhanger election

    Presidential vote is a four-way contest of candidates from hard left to extreme right

  • Friday, 21 April, 2017
    Sudhir Hazareesingh
    France’s republican monarchy has lost its mystique

    The presidency designed by de Gaulle struggles to produce decisive leadership

  • Tuesday, 18 April, 2017
    Anne-Sylvaine Chassany
    The shadow of Charles de Gaulle stalks the French election

    Candidates of left, right and centre lay claim to the general’s mantle

  • Tuesday, 25 October, 2016
    Heathrow expansion
    A history of UK airport expansion: runways, reports, reversals

    The Heathrow decision follows a long line of inquiries into how to expand capacity

  • Sunday, 28 February, 2016
    ObituaryWorld
    François Andriot, resistance combatant, 1921-2016

    French commando linked up with Allies in a scene made famous by the film ‘The Longest Day’

  • Thursday, 15 October, 2015
    European companies
    Air France suspends workers over executive shirt-ripping attack

    French flag-carrier takes action after labour grievances spill over into staff scuffle

  • Friday, 3 July, 2015
    ObituaryFrench politics
    Charles Pasqua, French politician and businessman, 1927-2015

    Gritty Gaullist who decried a dual danger to sovereignty

  • Monday, 23 February, 2015
    FT Photo DiaryWorld
    Attacking Isis
  • Friday, 26 September, 2014
    French politics
    Crowds rejoice at Nicolas Sarkozy’s return even as doubts linger

    Supporters see Sarkozy as a natural leader but even they concede he is no De Gaulle

  • Friday, 15 August, 2014
    The FT ViewWorld
    The fuse under the Fifth Republic

    A powerful presidency no longer serves France’s needs

  • Thursday, 31 July, 2014
    World
    Key dates in 400-year history between US and Africa
  • Thursday, 24 July, 2014
    LexJoseph Cotterill
    Russia sanctions: being “insufficiently cautious”
  • Thursday, 5 June, 2014
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Grace of Monaco – film review

    If you lock up your brain, Olivier Dahan’s biopic has a certain cornball magnitude

  • Thursday, 27 March, 2014
    News in-depthSamuel Brittan
    Brittan on Britain

    The FT economics commentator recalls pivotal moments in the British political economy

  • Friday, 14 February, 2014
    ObituaryLife & Arts
    Obituary: Jean-Paul Gardère, winemaker, 1920-2014

    Savvy son of the Médoc soil who restored lustre to Latour

  • Friday, 11 October, 2013
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Why Danny the Red dreams of Europe

    The May 1968 student revolutionary who sent de Gaulle into retirement is 68 himself now - but still a fighter

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