The Financial Times

My uncle, the ‘gilet jaune’

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. My uncle Jojo is a gilet jaune. As with Brexiters, every family has at least one yellow-vest protester in its ranks.
The Intercept

Macron and French Centrists Don’t Have Answers as “Yellow Vest” Protests Head for 10th Week

Last November, the French started a new Saturday tradition: “Gilet jaune” protesters wearing yellow safety vests started to take to the streets by the tens of thousands in the morning, shouting ...
The Independent

Here in France, the gilet jaunes are ruining lives, and after the vile attack on Alain Finkielkraut I can't support them any longer

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
The Economist

The gilets jaunes are forming not one but two political parties

THREE MONTHS ago, Jacline Mouraud, a hypnotherapist from Brittany, opened her laptop, pressed record and offloaded her grievances. Her coup de gueule (angry rant) video against the rising fuel prices, ...
The Independent

Gilets jaunes infighting shows the movement is brutally disunited – but Macron is still no match for them

Those of us who observed France’s gilets jaunes (yellow vests) on their 13th Saturday in a row of Paris street demonstrations last weekend witnessed incidents that were as surreal as they were ...