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Annette Young is pleased to welcome Phil Clark, Professor of International Politics at SOAS University of London. He specialises in conflict and post-conflict issues. As French President Emmanuel Macron and Rwandan President Paul Kagame inaugurate a new memorial in Paris dedicated to the victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, profound questions remain about France's historical role and the limits of reconciliation between Paris and Kigali. Beneath the symbolism of remembrance lies a deeply unresolved historical dispute. While describing the memorial as significant, Clark contends that "the French government has never fully come to terms with its involvement in the genocide," and suggests that for many survivors, "some of the great truths of the genocide and France's involvement in it have never really been fully acknowledged." France and Rwanda are seeking a mutually beneficial partnership driven by "a huge amount of political pragmatism."

Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr Filippo Dionigi, Senior Lecturer of International Relations specialized in Middle Eastern politics at the University of Bristol. As Israeli forces push deeper into southern Lebanon than at any point since the end of their occupation in 2000, the seizure of Beaufort Castle has powerful symbolic resonance within the history of the conflict. And while the military campaign is directed at Hezbollah, Israel seeks to exert pressure through widespread civilian suffering and forced displacement of more than a million Lebanese "as a weapon" of war.

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A viral online joke in India, the “Cockroach Janta Party,” created as a parody of comments by a Supreme Court judge, has grown into a Gen Z–driven political movement with millions of followers. It promotes youth frustration with traditional politics but has also faced attempts by authorities to restrict its spread and reports of threats against its founder.

At a moment of profound instability in British politics, with the Labour Party engulfed by internal revolt, François Picard welcomes Owen Jones, British author, Guardian columnist and political commentator.…

At a moment of profound instability in British politics, with the Labour Party engulfed by internal revolt, François Picard welcomes Owen Jones, British journalist and political commentator. He offers an unsparing diagnosis of a political movement at a crossroads. “The country is in political turmoil,” Jones declares at the outset. What follows is not merely commentary on a leadership race, but a wider analysis of institutional decay and electoral fragmentation. With striking candour, Jones argues that Labour’s crisis has moved beyond a temporary setback into something more existential: “Their support now is at historic low levels… some Labour MPs have started to openly question whether the Labour Party will survive as a political force in this country.” Yet amid this diagnosis of collapse, Jones identifies an emerging figure around whom political hopes are now being projected. “The hope Labour have with Andy Burnham,” he explains, “is that he can cast a wider net.” Whether Burnham represents renewal, or simply another vessel for a party desperate for rescue, becomes one of the interview’s central questions. Across issues ranging from Keir Starmer’s faltering leadership, Nigel Farage’s populist resilience, the rise of Reform UK, the urban advance of the Green Party of England and Wales, and Labour’s unresolved European strategy, Jones paints a portrait of a political system undergoing not adjustment, but realignment.

As the 79th Cannes Film Festival opens on the Croisette, politics is competing with glamour for attention. Hundreds of figures from the French film industry have signed an open letter warning about what…