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I grew up in France, where all children are taught about the revolutionary roots of their nation and what the state owes its citizens. The lessons leave their mark Young British people have plenty to be angry about. Crushing student debt, private-school privilege, a housing market they can’t enter. YetContinue Reading

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Waves of protests expose debt crisis faced by French government, but political wrangling is stalling an escape plan. Is there a way out? Eight years have passed since rising fuel prices brought the gilets jaunes (yellow vest) demonstrators to the streets of France, prompting the first big crisis of EmmanuelContinue Reading

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Fixing the broken education system will be just the start. The biggest challenge for an aloof political class is to finally pay attention to an abandoned generation When adolescents protest that the government is failing to uphold their right to an education, and the government’s response is to send inContinue Reading

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The debate around the schools protests is angry and polarised. I fear this is a foretaste of how election tensions next year will play out Helen Massy-Beresford is a British journalist who lives in Paris It would be tough to argue that the demands of France’s protesting high school studentsContinue Reading