The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Gun police against unarmed farmers – the new siege of Paris By Richard Ings IN a distant echo of the Franco-Prussian War – this time with tractors rather than cannons – Paris is once more under siege. French farmers have, with military efficiency, cut off the main motorway arteries feeding the heart of the capital. Their message is simple: ‘no farmers = no food’. In 1870, starved of provisions by the German army, Parisians turned to eating rats before going on to  devour the occupants of the municipal zoo . If the French farmers’ protest goes on as long as the Prussian military campaign,  thanks to Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo  Parisians will once more be put in a position to eat their fill of rodent. Dark humour aside, this is no joke. It started before Christmas with farmers throughout the country  turning road signs upside-down  to express their exasperation at how the European Union and its French lackeys have been making life impossible for farmers t...

  President Macron: 'There is no such thing as French culture' These riots are regime-endorsed. CHRIS WALDBURGER President Macron at home with his favourite constituents. The riots in France, which seem to be fizzling out, are not revolutionary. As with the George Floyd ‘summer of love’, the violence is regime-endorsed and thus will eventually be localized and contained, if they are not already so. It is no accident that the French protests were sparked by a story similar to those that have inspired various BLM protests. Here is the mother of the Algerian ‘youth’ killed by police, at the initial march in Nanterres, near Paris. There has been  considerable damage and drama  since. Thousands of vehicles and buildings have been burnt and multiple police barracks attacked. 700 policemen have been injured. Most notably, a Paris mayor had his home rammed by a vehicle, and then his family was attacked with fireworks. His wife is in hospital with a broken leg, sustained while shi...