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Pauline Bock

Pauline Bock is a French journalist based in Paris. She covers media and politics for the independent website Arrêt sur Images


July 2024

  • Lucie Castets (centre), prime ministerial candidate for the leftwing coalition Nouveau Front Populaire, in Lille on 27 July 2024

    Macron has to stop hiding behind the Olympics – and name a prime minister

    Pauline Bock
    By refusing to confirm the election-winning leftwing coalition’s candidate, the president is looking more and more autocratic, says Paris-based journalist Pauline Bock

July 2023

  • A crowd of protesters in Paris, with some holding a sign bearing the words "The police kill' and "Justice for Nahel".

    Of course Macron won’t tackle police violence – he knows his power depends on it

    Pauline Bock
    Since the 2018 gilets jaunes crisis, the French president seems to have accepted brutal police tactics. Is it fear or indifference? says Paris-based journalist Pauline Bock

April 2022

  • Emmanuel Macron delivers a Victory Speech, Paris, France - 24 Apr 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by ROMUALD MEIGNEUX/SIPA/REX/Shutterstock (12909851s) Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron. French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech after his victory on the Champs de Mars Emmanuel Macron delivers a Victory Speech, Paris, France - 24 Apr 2022

    The French left’s ‘ouf!’ of relief masks the truth: this was no victory for Macron

    Pauline Bock
  • Macron with Marine Le Pen at the Elysee Palace in Paris, February 2019.

    Here’s the truth about Emmanuel Macron: he helped create this far-right monster

    Pauline Bock

August 2019

  • G7 souvenir magnets on sale in Biarritz, France, August 2019

    The panel
    How is Boris Johnson’s Britain viewed in other G7 countries? Our panel responds

    Roland Kelts, Sarah Jones, Jan Fleischhauer and Pauline Bock
  • A view shows statues of the western rose window of Notre-Dame Cathedral after a massive fire devastated large parts of the gothic structure in Paris, France, April 16, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

    Why have Americans given so much money to restore Notre-Dame?

June 2019

  • A proposal for Notre Dame from Italian architect duo Studio Fuksas.

    Notre Dame is becoming a symbol of Macron’s gung-ho presidency

    Pauline Bock
    The innovation-obsessed president is at odds with most French people who would like a faithful restoration of the cathedral, says French journalist Pauline Bock

March 2019

  • The Fouquet’s restaurant on fire during a gilets jaunes protest, Paris, 16 March

    The Paris of the rich is ablaze – and that image will define Macron

    Pauline Bock
    The gilets jaunes’ targets show their rejection of the new ‘president of the rich’, says French journalist Pauline Bock

January 2019

  • Illustration: Andrzej Krauze

    France’s gilets jaunes used to cause chaos. Right now they’re just chaotic

    Pauline Bock
    The anti-Macron protest movement is split over a decision to compete in elections, says French journalist Pauline Bock

December 2018

  • Hugh Grant with Kristin Scott Thomas in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

    Posh Brits in romcoms? I’ve fallen out of love, actually, thanks to Brexit

    Pauline Bock
  • Yellow vests protest against fuel prices<br>epa07205948 People wearing yellow vests block access to the oil refinery of Frontignan, southern France, 03 December 2018. The so-called gilets jaunes (yellow vests), a protest movement, which reportedly has no political affiliation, is protesting across the nation over high fuel prices. EPA/GUILLAUME HORCAJUELO

    The French protests, like Brexit, are a raging cry for help from the disenfranchised

    Pauline Bock

November 2018

  • The Crimes of Grindelwald

    Thanks, JK Rowling, but I’ve had it with Harry Potter

    Pauline Bock
  • French president Emmanuel Macron.

    Macron’s plummeting ratings could mean defeat to Le Pen in European elections

    Pauline Bock

October 2018

  • Emmanuel Macron at EU summit press conference

    Wake up, UK! Emmanuel Macron is right – you urgently need a Brexit plan

    Pauline Bock
    It’s up to the UK to propose a solution to the looming Brexit crisis, says British-based French journalist Pauline Bock

September 2018

  • Welcome mat and wellington boots

    For me and millions others, Brexit will turn home turf into a foreign land

    Pauline Bock
  • ‘One MP called it a ‘Macron fanclub’: most of the products appear to be related to him.’

    Macron merchandise takes the French for mugs

    Pauline Bock

August 2018

  • Nicolas Hulot

    Macron has lost a minister. Has he lost credibility on the environment too?

    Pauline Bock
    Nicolas Hulot’s shock resignation is a heavy blow for the struggling president, says French journalist Pauline Bock

July 2018

  • French President Emmanuel Macron

    Macron thinks he's untouchable, but the Benalla scandal could undo him

    Pauline Bock
    The French president has dared those who have criticised his handling of the affair to ‘come get him’, says French journalist Pauline Bock

June 2018

  • Foie gras

    Let them eat steak: butchers fight back in French culinary wars

    Pauline Bock
  • French President Emmanuel Macron admonishes a teenager who spoke to him with familiarity.

    Manu or Mr President? Macron’s double standards show his lack of cool

    Pauline Bock
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