The beach lies at the edges of the country, and can feel like another place entirely. French hand-wringing over Muslim dress for paddling should make us look again at our own attitudes.
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Celtic and St Etienne are both in the dock with UEFA over fans waving Palestinian flags at Israeli teams.
Calls to amend the Le Touquet treaty between Britain and France are growing louder.
How literary analysis led one scholar to develop a theory of how immigrants become connected to their host society – and therefore unlikely to attack it.
The burkini bans, now overturned by a French court, are selective and ridiculous. But controversy over women’s clothing, and competing cultural notions of appropriate garb, are nothing new.
With tensions already high, telling Muslim women not to dress a certain way at the beach will only make things worse.
It may be politically convenient, but the ban by some French cities on the burkini bathing assumes all Muslim women view covered clothing in the same way.
Local collaborations between the fiercely secular state and religious groups have a long history.
While the French public comes to terms with a series of appalling attacks, politicians seize the opportunity to position themselves ahead of next year’s Presidential election.
France needs to find a place for Islam in its fiercely secular state.
The people who killed a priest in Rouen were driven by a warped agenda, not their social and economic backgrounds.
Delving into the graphic past of tattoos.
The ‘French kiss’ didn’t come from France and nor did the ‘French pox’, so does the reputation of France as raunchy stand up to scrutiny?
Britain might want to play nice and exit calmly, but the French president must avoid giving ammunition to Frexiters.
IS claims of responsibility for the Nice attack shouldn’t be taken seriously until there’s more proof cementing the connection.
It took just one man and a truck to kill dozens of people in Nice. We could still do more to make public spaces safe.
Families and friends bereaved after a sudden trauma may need both formal and informal support to help cope with their grief.
Terror on July 14 is a clear rejection of the values of the French Republic.
France has been in a state of emergency since November 2015, and yet a man was still able to plough a truck through a huge Bastille Day crowd.
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