Paris has seen barricades and coups, the theater of revolutions and plebiscites. Yet the most consequential French crises rarely announce themselves with cannon fire. They arrive softly, disguised as cabinet reshuffles and procedural improvisations. This autumn’s sequence, the resignation and reappointment of Sébastien Lecornu, can look like a farce. It isn’t. It’s a clinical finding.
Britain’s immigration debate is no longer about visas or small boats. It has become a referendum on who belongs and whether the state can still balance compassion with control. For the past decade, British debates over immigration were waged in the technocratic register: visa caps, asylum processing times, small-boat interdictions. That register has collapsed.
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