Tag: Fort
Sylvain Fort: “Edouard Philippe’s statements on the Franco-Algerian agreement weigh heavily…”
In the maquis of the texts which regulate immigration in France, there is one which lately attracts attention. This is the Franco-Algerian agreement of 1968, which grants Algerian nationals special…
Biden will probably have more trouble with DeSantis than with Trump, by Sylvain Fort
Ron DeSantis declared himself a candidate for the US presidential election on May 24. Presented as an offspring of Donald Trump, whom he had supported in 2016, he tries his…
“Jeanne du Barry”: Maïwenn’s film is an aesthetic scandal, by Sylvain Fort
Maïwenn’s film, Jeanne du Barry, was met with moderately favorable reviews, to say the least. We did not appreciate that the director seems, through Du Barry, to tell her personal…
Pascalidou and Levengood in “The Prisoners of the Fort”
Episode 1 (June 2) Farao Groth, Ebba Årsjö, Hanna Friberg Mauri Hermundsson, Magnus Göransson, Maria Wetterstrand Episode 2 (June 9) Marcus Allbäck, Sofia Dalén, Filip Dikmen Magdalena Forsberg, Klas Eriksson,…
“Sensitivity readers”: the world of books is now under surveillance, by Sylvain Fort
For a long time I wondered why I was so revolted by the sensitivity readers. I am talking about those employees of publishing houses responsible for sifting literary texts through…
Le Maire and Schiappa controversies: when did we switch to this puritanism? By Sylvain Fort
It’s still funny, this idea that a minister should not write, but devote himself entirely to his task, day and night, without unhitching. That publishing a book, a fortiori a…
Rima Abdul-Malak, Pap Ndiaye… The risks of “within range of yelling”, by Sylvain Fort
If there is a frankly unbearable term in the political vocabulary, it is “within reach of engueulade”. This expression designates the fact for a political leader to dare to go…
“The 100 days” of Macron, symbol of a France whose horizon is shrinking, by Sylvain Fort
Something has not been said about the milestone of “100 days” designated by Emmanuel Macron. Oh, of course, there was something ironically reminiscent of the Emperor’s Hundred Days, that triumphal…
Pensions: the spirit of reform has completely frozen in France, by Sylvain Fort
The pension reform raised the question of work. The question of work raises the question of training. The question of training raises the question of demography. The question of demography…
Any diplomatic victory won by Emmanuel Macron is ours, by Sylvain Fort
The famous “return of war in Europe” has not only brought back buried specters of violence and barbarism. It broke all balances, on a planetary scale. The tectonic plates of…