Headline: Emmanuel Macron ponders his de Gaulle moment with Brexit
Sub-headline: Fears grow that French president will say ‘Non’ and bundle UK out of the EU door
https://www.ft.com/content/23d71a04-5916-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a081a
This screen capture of a tweet puts the Financial Times propaganda in a necessary perspective:

Another perspective, this from Press TV:
Ramin Mazaheri
Press TV, Paris
Yellow Vest protests continue for the 21st consecutive week against French government policies. Turnout was lower than previous weeks but as our correspondent Ramin Mazaheri reports from Paris demonstrators have made it clear they will keep marching until their demands are met.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/04/07/592773/Yellow-Vests-brave-bans-violence-for-21st-weekend–
This report from REI on Macron’s carefully managed ‘Great Debate’ in place of coverage of the violence perpetrated in Nantes!

http://en.rfi.fr/france/20190408-france-awaits-results-macron-great-debate-yellow-vests-gilets-jaunes
Old Socialist
Added April 08,2019 4:14 PM


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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer.
'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.'
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary