“Terrorising a Generation”: A French Government in Terminal Decline

Sunday, October 25, 2026

The student movement has been met not with improved school conditions but with protest bans, curfews and heavy-handed policing in the final months of Macron’s presidency.  Read More

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Why more than 250,000 people have joined France’s student protests

Thursday, October 8, 2026

France has been thrown into crisis as student-led protests erupted across the nation, calling for better conditions for learning and for the government to address a decade-long staffing shortage.  Read More

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Who Doth Love Us Most? France’s presidential candidates compete to coddle corporations

Monday, September 14, 2026

The first debate of France’s upcoming presidential election, hosted by employer federation Medef two weeks ago, was strangely reminiscent of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Like the aging, angry monarch asking his three daughters “who doth love us most?”, corporate leaders asked the leading seven candidates what more they could do for business.  Read More

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“Terrorising a Generation”: A French Government in Terminal Decline

The student movement has been met not with improved school conditions but with protest bans, curfews and heavy-handed policing in the final months of Macron’s presidency. Read More  Read More

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CHILD MORTALITY: A strategy that could help arrest its rise

Not far from the beaches and cafés of seaside Cape Town, is the township of Du Noon, where children play in rubbish-strewn streets near pools of stagnant water and lop-sided rows of outdoor toilets. “They play and eat without washing their hands, so it’s not healthy,” says local health care worker, Nontuthuzelo Debesse, who is […]

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Why more than 250,000 people have joined France’s student protests

France has been thrown into crisis as student-led protests erupted across the nation, calling for better conditions for learning and for the government to address a decade-long staffing shortage.