While the international media evangelises its pro-European poster boy, in France the mood is one of nervous anticipation before an unknown and ambiguous political actor.

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While the international media evangelises its pro-European poster boy, in France the mood is one of nervous anticipation before an unknown and ambiguous political actor.
This year’s apocalyptic forest fires are part of an ongoing process of environmental change across the Mediterranean.
Media coverage of the refugee crisis has been driven by polemic. New research shows that public attitudes are in fact ambiguous, much less black and white than has often been supposed.
This is the sexualisation of racism: anti-Islam feminists talk about Muslim women’s emancipation, but what does this emancipation look like? They are doing jobs that feminists don’t want to do.
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The 2015 Paris agreement was signed by 195 countries, pledging themselves to keep global warming below 2°C by reducing levels …