As the country prepares to elect a new President Polls suggest record levels of apathy and disillusion among french voters. A spate of Terror Attacks has sown insecurity and sparked a heated debate about immigration, islam and frances identity. My guest today is pascal bruckner, a writer and Public Intellectual in the grand french tradition. Is france living through an age of decline . Pascal bruckner, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. We are talking with a french president ial election very close. Does france feel ripe for the sort of political shock that weve seen in recent times both in the uk over the brexit vote and in the United States with the victory of donald trump in the president ial election . I hope not, with all my heart i hope we wont face the same electoral results that you had with brexit and that the americans had with trump. So were doing everything to avoid the passage to the far right with Marine Le Pen. But at the present time we have two opposite candidates, jean l
As the country prepares to elect a new President Polls suggest record levels of apathy and disillusion among french voters. A spate of Terror Attacks has sown insecurity and sparked a heated debate about immigration, islam and frances identity. My guest today is pascal bruckner, a writer and Public Intellectual in the grand french tradition. Is france living through an age of decline . Pascal bruckner, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. We are talking with a french president ial election very close. Does france feel ripe for the sort of political shock that weve seen in recent times both in the uk over the brexit vote and in the United States with the victory of donald trump in the president ial election . I hope not, with all my heart i hope we wont face the same electoral results that you had with brexit and that the americans had with trump. So were doing everything to avoid the passage to the far right with Marine Le Pen. But at the present time we have two opposite candidates, jean l
As the country prepares to elect a new President Polls suggest record levels of apathy and disillusion among french voters. A spate of Terror Attacks has sown insecurity and sparked a heated debate about immigration, islam and frances identity. My guest today is pascal bruckner, a writer and Public Intellectual in the grand french tradition. Is france living through an age of decline . Pascal bruckner, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. We are talking with a french president ial election very close. Does france feel ripe for the sort of political shock that weve seen in recent times both in the uk over the brexit vote and in the United States with the victory of donald trump in the president ial election . I hope not, with all my heart i hope we wont face the same electoral results that you had with brexit and that the americans had with trump. So were doing everything to avoid the passage to the far right with Marine Le Pen. But at the present time we have two opposite candidates, jean l
Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Notjust in the United States but across the world, the black lives Matter Movement has prompted debate about race, identity and power. It is a campaign predicated on ideas about what it means to be black and white. But what if those very terms are themselves part of the problem . My guest, Thomas Chatterton williams, one is a mixed race american writer, a self declared ex black man, whose ideas present a challenge to so called woke culture. And how much room is there right now for respectful, thoughtful debate . Thomas Chatterton Williams in paris, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me. Well, its a pleasure to have you on the show. Thomas, i think we need to begin with a little bit of your personal story. You were born in the United States to a black father and a white mother. Im just wondering how, as a child now that you have had many, many years to reflect on it how did you forge your own sense of id
Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Notjust in the United States but across the world, the black lives Matter Movement has prompted debate about race, identity and power. It is a campaign predicated on ideas about what it means to be black and white. But what if those very terms are themselves part of the problem . My guest, Thomas Chatterton williams, one is a mixed race american writer, a self declared ex black man, whose ideas present a challenge to so called woke culture. And how much room is there right now for respectful, thoughtful debate . Thomas Chatterton Williams in paris, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me. Well, its a pleasure to have you on the show. Thomas, i think we need to begin with a little bit of your personal story. You were born in the United States to a black father and a white mother. Im just wondering how, as a child now that you have had many, many years to reflect on it how did you forge your own sense of identity, coming from a mixed race family