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We take a look at what exactly French high school students are demanding in their nationwide blockades.
From crumbling buildings, to absent teachers who are not replaced, to applying to university, we take a look at what has created so much anger among French teens.
We also draw parallels between this movement and that of the Yellow Vests.
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On 6 October, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will give a speech in the plenary of the European Parliament. She will address issues concerning the upcoming European Council - the quarterly meeting of heads of states in Brussels. The next European Council will take place on 15 and 16 October.
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n this sequel to Bullet To Beijing Harry has successfully made the transition to freelance by opening his own private investigations bureau, 'Harry Palmer and Associates', together with a number of former intelligence officers.
Harry's enthusiastic colleague Kim is keen to start a new office in St. Petersburg to spend more time with his beautiful girlfriend, the ballerina Tatania. In Russia, nothing runs smoothly and when Tatiana is kidnapped, Harry and Kim suspect the Mafia but are they right?
François Picard is pleased to welcome Philip Ingram, journalist and former British military intelligence officer. The events surrounding RAF Fairford are not an isolated incident, explains Ingram.
It's part of a much wider security issue in which conventional military operations, intelligence activity and gray-zone tactics increasingly overlap. The withdrawal of the U.S. B-1 bombers can plausibly be understood as a routine operational rotation:
Fairford is a forward operating base, the aircraft have been deployed for several months, and both crews and equipment require respite and deeper maintenance. At the same time, however, the timing of that withdrawal, the ongoing counterterrorism investigation and the broader debate over British defence spending make it impossible to consider the episode purely in operational terms.
From his perspective, the most important point is that much of the relevant information necessarily remains outside the public domain. The arrests and subsequent releases on bail may reflect tactical decisions within a much larger intelligence and counterintelligence operation. He also sees the possibility that the activity around RAF Fairford forms part of a broader threat shared by British and American intelligence services.
More broadly, he would place this episode within the growing pattern of gray-zone activity across Britain and Europe. Russia, China, Iran and their proxies are increasingly operating below the threshold of conventional conflict, using activities that can test security arrangements, probe intelligence networks or create uncertainty without necessarily producing an immediately visible attack.
