Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)
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| Édouard Philippe 2027, and The Socialist Party in 2024 | 04 Sep 2024 | 00:08:30 | |
Macron's first prime minister ever clarifies his plans in an interview with Le Point. He doesn't say it ambiguously - he's doing it. And the Socialist Party released a statement clarifying their intentions with Macron too - no alliance. Show Notes - Édouard Philippe : « Je serai candidat à la prochaine élection présidentielle » (fr) - Socialist Party statement (fr) More Context From Flap24 - The PS Wants To Govern With Macron (en) - A Socialist Party and a Constitutional Coup (en) - Glucksmann and Cazenueve to the Government (en) Send us questions and suggestions for our Friday interviews at flep24pod@gmail.com. Cover our newspaper expenses. Why don't you buy us one today? https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Macron Ministry | 02 Sep 2024 | 00:06:57 | |
Two months out with no new prime minister, Macron might be drawing closer to the moment...but it looks like he still wants to name his own ministers to key positions. Macron's goal is clear: no change in policy whoever's leading the next government. And apparently Marine Le Pen played a card to get her way with Macron. Is Xavier Bertrand out? Show Notes - Nouveau Premier ministre : Larcher, Bayrou et Attal reçus tour à tour à l’Elysée (fr) - Candidatures à Matignon : Macron maintient le flou (fr) - Nouveau Premier ministre : Larcher, Bayrou et Attal reçus tour à tour à l’Elysée (fr) - Le président refuse une cohabitation (fr) - Matignon : Bernard Cazeneuve, l’homme qui fracasse le PS (fr) - The Xavier Bertrand Hypothesis (en) - The Bernard Cazeneuve Hypothesis (en) - The PS Wants To Govern With Macron (en) Send us questions and suggestions for our Friday interviews at flep24pod@gmail.com. Cover our newspaper expenses. Ryan, why don't you buy us one today? https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| It Would Feel So Empty Without Me(lenchonistes) | 24 Aug 2024 | 00:10:17 | |
Melenchon makes a surprising offer to the Macronists - why did he do this? The ranks of La France Insoumise continue to grow, and without the dissidents, the party remains more convinced than ever of its strategic orientation. Meanwhile the Greens have their congress with new arrivals in their ranks. Olly's recent Jacobin article on the state of France: https://jacobin.com/2024/08/macron-journalism-fixing-france-reivew Send us questions for our Friday interviews at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Johnny, how about you buy us one today? https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Is This A Coup? | 23 Aug 2024 | 00:13:00 | |
Macron meets the representatives of the NFP... and refuses to name a Prime Minister. Attal says the centrist bloc will censure any government with LFI in it. Mélenchon calls Macron an autocrat and Roussel calls his actions a coup. Show Notes - Our episode with Charles Devellenes on Macron's thirst for power - Mediapart's rundown of the day Send us questions for our Friday interviews at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Johnny, how about you buy us one today? https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| The PS Wants To Govern With Macron | 22 Aug 2024 | 00:06:50 | |
In dribs and drabs the Socialist Party is signalling - sometimes openly - that they want to break with LFI and govern with Macron. Will they take the plunge? Over in the presidential camp, Élisabeth Borne announces that she's running to lead Macron's party, Renaissance. But there are whispers that Gabriel Attal wants the post as well. A bloc is forming to block his ambitions. And Renaissance deputies are trying to strip LFI Eurodeputy Rima Hassan of her parliamentary immunity after appearing at a protest in Jordan against Israel's genocide in Palestine that they say was "pro-Hamas." Show Notes - Avant la rencontre avec Macron, le PS replonge dans ses divisions sur l’alliance avec LFI - Politico Playbook Paris newsletter - Élisabeth Borne : « Je suis candidate à la direction de Renaissance » - Bergé et Beaune annoncent soutenir Borne pour diriger Renaissance, au nom de «l'esprit collectif» - Manifestation des 25 et 26 octobre 2014 contre le barrage de Sivens (wiki) - En Jordanie, la député européenne insoumise Rima Hassan s’affiche dans une manifestation pro-Hamas - Rima Hassan s’affiche pro-Hamas sans réserve en Jordanie - Two previous episodes about the Socialist Party inching towards a coalition with Macron Send us questions for our Friday interviews at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Alexandra, how about you buy us one today? https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| A Socialist Party and a Constitutional Coup | 21 Aug 2024 | 00:06:50 | |
There's discontent in the Socialist Party over the alliance with La France Insoumise. Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol and Hélène Geoffroy want out again. Éric Ciotti's party is defining its political course in the National Assembly - trotting faithfully along behind the National Rally, the most powerful force on the right. And Gabriel Attal sent letters to his ministers laying out the cap on their budgets for 2025 - for many a political move, given the fact that Attal's government lost an election over a month ago now. Show Notes - Paris Playbook, August 21st, 2024 - France’s Once-Mighty Socialist Party Must Change or Die (Marlon's article) - Les députés du groupe d’Éric Ciotti, À droite, entrent dans l’arène - Coup d’envoi pour le budget 2025, décisif sur le plan politique - Le camp présidentiel prêt à amender certains de ses dogmes économiques - Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic - Emmanuel Macron’s France Is a Broken Republic (Olly's article) Send us questions for our Friday interview at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Jonathan, how about you buy us one today? https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Glucksmann and Cazenueve to the Government | 20 Aug 2024 | 00:09:12 | |
LFI is on guard against reports that the Socialist Party won't oppose Bernard Cazeneuve as Macron's Prime Minister pick. Raphaël Glucksmann is out with a long interview in Le Point where he talks about turning the page on Macron and Mélenchon, rebuilding French social democracy, and his presidential ambitions. And the National Rally is preparing for another election in a year's time, resigned to what they say is inevitable paralysis whoever gets picked for PM anyway. Show Notes - Raphaël Glucksmann : « Il faut tourner la page Macron et Mélenchon ! » - Le RN dit se préparer à une « nouvelle dissolution » au terme d’une « année de paralysie » Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Jonathan, how about you buy us one today? https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Bayrou Says No To The NFP | 19 Aug 2024 | 00:05:50 | |
François Bayrou talked with Le Figaro yesterday and called for...a government that avoids the extremes. He also excluded Lucie Castets from becoming Prime Minster, the NFP candidate for the position, saying she has no experience. We also take a look at a Senate Bill which would require a President under the Constitution to name a Prime Minister within 8 days of an election...it's been about 7 weeks now. Show Notes - Pourquoi Emmanuel Macron prend son temps pour nommer un nouveau premier ministre - Destituer Macron? "Chaque jour qui passe est une sorte d'abus de pouvoir," assène un député LFI - Texte n° 742 (2023-2024), Exposé des motifs Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Harold, how about you buy us one today? https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| The NFP Outside of LFI Says No To Impeachment | 19 Aug 2024 | 00:07:07 | |
The Socialist Party and the Greens reject the LFI's impeachment puch as the way forward against Macron. The Socialist Party says a vote of no confidence is the way to go if and when Macron names a Prime Minister outside of the New Popular Front's candidate, Lucie Castets. And a brief note on Alain Delon's death, the new moment for secular sainthood and a possibility for Macron to continue avoiding politics. Show Notes - Les Insoumis accentuent la pression et menacent Emmanuel Macron de destitution - Menace de destitution d’Emmanuel Macron : le coup de com de LFI agace les autres membres du NFP - Mort d’Alain Delon : pluie d’hommages à droite, la gauche plus circonspecte Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Alan, how about you buy us one today? https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Mélenchon Wants to Impeach Macron | 18 Aug 2024 | 00:07:33 | |
Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the LFI want to impeach Macron under Article 68 of the French constitution. They say that's he's derelict in his duties to be a neutral arbiter by refusing to accept the democratic verdict of the recent legislative elections. Impeaching Macron would be difficult to get through both chambers of France's parliament, but Mélenchon's party has enough deputies to get the ball rolling with a resolution in the National Assembly. Show Notes - Article 68 - Constitution du 4 octobre 1958 Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Robert, how about you buy us one today? https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Macron Picks a Prime Minister | 17 Aug 2024 | 00:07:20 | |
The title is clickbait - sorry! Marlon takes a solo look at an announcement by Macron to host all the country's political forces on the 23rd of August to determine who the next prime minister will be. The news sets off the typical paper-selling speculation about who the next Prime Minister might be (mostly familiar names, though one wacky hypothesis). And Marlon goes over a minor Trotskyist sect and why the National Rally wants to kick it out of a beautiful beach side summer blitz. Show Notes - Office de Tourisme de Leucate - Gouvernement : Macron va consulter les chefs des groupes parlementaires et des partis le 23 août - Nomination du premier ministre : les noms qui circulent pour Matignon Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Joseph, how about you buy us one today? https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| RN Cleans House & NFP Divides | 16 Aug 2024 | 00:05:52 | |
Marlon takes a solo look at a report from Le Point into how the National Rally is laying the blame for their election results on bad candidate choices. The solution? Get rid of the people who chose the candidates. The NFP's prime minister choice Lucie Castets looks like she's backing away cautiously from a commitment to immediately implement the program as she searches for a coaltion. And Place Publique inches boldly towards a governmental coalition - away from the NFP's program too. Show Notes - Le RN fait le grand ménage parmi ses cadres locaux Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. They all just keep bursting into flames so we need new ones: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| The Bernard Cazeneuve Hypothesis | 01 Sep 2024 | 00:06:38 | |
Emmanuel Macron is taking another look at Bernard Cazeneuve - there's reporting that the French president met with the former Socialist Party Prime Minister recently to consider him again for the top position in the government after the New Popular Front's candidate Lucie Castets was definitively ruled out. A look at Cazeneuve's political career and his policy priorities, from fiscal hawking to violent repression in the Interior Ministry. Show Notes - Retour à la case Bernard (fr) - Les socialistes face à leurs vieux démons (fr) - Bernard Cazeneuve, wikipedia (fr) - Ludivine Bantigny Twitter thread on Cazeneuve's politics (fr) - Flap24: Glucksmann and Cazenueve to the Government (en) Send us questions and suggestions for our Friday interviews at flep24pod@gmail.com. Cover our newspaper expenses. Robin, why don't you buy us one today? https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Impasse! | 15 Aug 2024 | 00:05:21 | |
Marlon takes a solo look at the boring impasse French politics finds itself in as Macron continues to refuse to name a government. A veritable democratic scandal, which LFI President of the National Assembly's finance commissions calls an attempt by Emmanuel to essential cohabit in government with...himself. Show Notes - La gauche s'exaspère : « Emmanuel Macron veut une cohabitation avec lui-même » Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. They all just keep bursting into flames so we need new ones: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Attal's Grand Coalition on the Horizons | 14 Aug 2024 | 00:05:51 | |
Gabriel Attal calls for a grand coalition (excluding LFI and RN). Horizons call for a grand coalition (excluding LFI and RN). Vague policy proposals, of course, from a sweltering France. Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. They all just keep bursting into flames so we need new ones: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| The Country's Heating Up | 13 Aug 2024 | 00:05:17 | |
It's hot hot hot in France, and the post-Olympic truce is over. Plus, Macron's spokespeople use the language of Maurras again (not French). Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. They all just keep bursting into flames so we need new ones: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Power Lifting | 11 Aug 2024 | 00:06:37 | |
Marlon runs through a quick solo episode on the fear of another RN surge, the goings on at the gym in the national assembly, the struggles of the poor lobbyists and the left in Paris. Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Our we will bring crime back to the darkened streets of Paris. Out of necessity: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| How to Lobby the Left | 10 Aug 2024 | 00:13:04 | |
Olly talks about two stories, one in which the media tries to signal the return of Anne Hidalgo and one in which lobbyists lament the presence of La France Insoumise, who are unlobbyable! Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Our we will bring crime back to the darkened streets of Paris. Out of necessity: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Is France on the Right or the Left? Plus Paris gets rid of crime | 09 Aug 2024 | 00:09:36 | |
Marlon takes a solo look at a new interview with Agnès Pannier-Runacher, who's on the left of the Macron grouping. She says there needs to be a coalition government which excludes LFI and RN, and that France is not a right wing country. Plus, did Paris get rid of crime during the Olympic games? Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Our we will bring crime back to the darkened streets of Paris. Out of necessity: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Antifa, Austerity and Aubrey's resignation | 08 Aug 2024 | 00:26:43 | |
Olly and Marlon discuss Olly's meeting with Raphael Arnault, the looming austerity budget, the resignation of Lille's mayor and her history on the left of the PS as well as the possible failure of the flagship Olympic clean water measures. Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Podcasters actually eat newspapers and rely on them to survive! HELP OUT A STARVING PODCASTER EAT SOME NOURISHING ARTICLES HERE: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| The Xavier Bertrand Hypothesis | 08 Aug 2024 | 00:06:58 | |
Xavier Bertrand's name keeps coming up as Macron's next choice for Prime Minister. We've talked about him before on this podcast, so Marlon goes through some of it in this solo episode. Also - what to do with phone numbers? I want your answers and feedback on this. Cover our newspaper expenses. The balance of power in the Rigulon-7 galacto-space zone depends on it. [Insert second breathless CTA here]: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Summer Conferences, Nice, and Popular Committee | 07 Aug 2024 | 00:06:41 | |
Marlon takes a solo spin through the tension in Nice, as the opening salvo in a battle for the country and the French right charges up between Christian Estrosi and Éric Ciotti. A rundown on the summer conferences. And LFI continues with its investigation into just how much the Olympic Games cost. Cover our newspaper expenses. Something bad might happen generally to the balance of nature if you don't. [Insert second breathless CTA here]: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| A Limbo Government of Non-Ministers | 05 Aug 2024 | 00:10:33 | |
Olly discusses some articles on the strange stasis French politics has entered into in which Macron is still governing as he always has, but no one really knows if this is actually a legitimate thing to be doing. Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Podcasters actually eat newspapers and rely on them to survive! HELP OUT A STARVING PODCASTER EAT SOME NOURISHING ARTICLES HERE: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Can the NFP Last? | 01 Sep 2024 | 00:13:10 | |
Olly takes a solo look at the civil war in the PS. The integrity of the NFP hinges on it, but it's uhhh not looking great. Send us questions and suggestions for our Friday interviews at flep24pod@gmail.com. Cover our newspaper expenses. https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| We're so back: SocDem edition | 04 Aug 2024 | 00:14:40 | |
Olly and Marlon discuss the centre's attempts to rebuild, Sophia Chikirou getting in hot water over Hamas and why nazis are calling Olly a collaborator on Twitter. Cover our newspaper expenses. Podcasters actually eat newspapers and rely on them to survive! HELP OUT A STARVING PODCASTER EAT SOME NOURISHING ARTICLES HERE: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Olympic Pride, Dinners with Michel, and France Goes to Claremont | 03 Aug 2024 | 00:06:14 | |
Marlon takes a solo look at the renewed national pride in France the Olympics are spreading. Plus, Sarah Knafo head to California with the Claremont Institute, and presidential hopeful Laurent Wauquiez spent over 1200 euros in regional funds on a diner with Michel Houellebecq. Cover our newspaper expenses. You know the drill...doom is imminent so we need cold hard cash. Come on buddy. Get on with it. [Insert second breathless CTA here]: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Macron's Theater Days, His Unpublished Novels, and the Permanent Crisis of his Regime with Charles Devellennes | 02 Aug 2024 | 01:05:56 | |
Marlon and Olly interview Charles Devellennes, who's the Senior Lecturer in Political and Social Thought at the University of Kent. Charles tells the about Macron's literary style, the unpublished novels Macron wrote, and the enduring effect Milan Kundera's "Jacques et son maître" had on young Emmanuel. Charles also tells us about the own trajectory his interest in philosophy took him on down the path of political science, which culminated in his 2022 book The Macron Régime: The Ideology of the New Right in France. We talk about that book, and about security, merit, and hope. There's also speculation about the state of the left in France today and tomorrow, and a look at the right in France of yesterday and the future. Charles' Twitter: https://x.com/cdevellennes Cover our newspaper expenses. Disease is everywhere in our lungs and today may be the last one we ever draw breath without YOUR help. [Insert second breathless CTA here]: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| A Former Macronist Spills the Beans | 01 Aug 2024 | 00:18:33 | |
Olly and Marlon discuss sabotage, the possibility (again) of Xavier Bertrand becoming Prime Minister, and an interview with a former Macronist discussing what the president is really like (we've mentioned him once or twice beforeon the show). Marlon's interview with Marc Endeweld. Cover our newspaper expenses. We're washing in the toxic water of the river Seine and need YOU to save us. [Insert second breathless CTA here]: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Macron's Cold Coup | 31 Jul 2024 | 00:11:39 | |
The Constitutional Council says that vote rigging in the National Assembly is none of its business. Mediapart reports on a "cold coup" enacted by the Macronists. And Attal shows that the French state would do anything for love... but should they do that? Cover our newspaper expenses. We're eating cat food and need YOU to save us. [Insert second breathless CTA here]: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Kiting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| How to Blow Up a Railway Line | 31 Jul 2024 | 00:11:46 | |
Olly discusses the sabotage at the French Olympics, Macron's attempt to rehabilitate his image, the reactions to the opening ceremony and the plot in the PS. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| A Neo-Nazi Security Guard and a Prime Minister Who Wants To Be President | 31 Jul 2024 | 00:05:18 | |
Marlon takes a solo survey of some news as France swelters, groans, and cracks under a heatwave (projection maybe? sure!). There's the neo-nazi security guard on the private island owned by the mega-reactionary media mogul. There's an action packed action pact from the outgoing current resigned who knows Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, and there's even a report that Attal still wants to be President. Cover our newspaper expenses. Currency needed imminently to stave off disaster. [Insert second breathless CTA here]: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| A Tale of Two Exorbitant Spending Sprees | 30 Jul 2024 | 00:08:13 | |
It's the 50th episode of Flap24! Marlon takes us on a solo trek through two reports which came out today about just how much all these politicians are spending. First there's one from Libération about the vice-president of the RN splurging on 4 star hotels to the tune of 400 euros a night during the 2022 campaign, which isn't illegal at all. Then there's a Mediapart report on the recent report by the presidential palace's auditors on the 8 million euro deficit produced by nearly half million euro dinners for kings like Charles III and state dinners for leaders like India's Narendra Modi. Plus, an announcement about the future of the show. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Arcane Assembly #1 | 29 Jul 2024 | 00:10:46 | |
As news slows down in the holidays, Marlon takes a solo look at some of the arcana of the National Assembly, from important dates in the upcoming fall session, to a look at how parliamentary immunity works in the French parliament. Marlon also ponders what guerrilla National Assembly warfare could look like. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Foreign Influence and Oppression Olympics | 27 Jul 2024 | 00:07:17 | |
Marlon takes a solo look at those on Macron's right flank who are decrying wokism in the Olympics. In more interesting news, a quick overview of the French Senate's report on foreign influence, and its plan for a massive public influence campaign on behalf of France's values, including massive narrative crafting to combat France's "enemies." Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Jean Luc and the Giant Impeach | 30 Aug 2024 | 00:06:57 | |
Sarkozy gives us his two cents, Melenchon's impeachment plan climbs in the polls and Ruffin tries to find a new role. Send us questions and suggestions for our Friday interviews at flep24pod@gmail.com. Cover our newspaper expenses. https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Dodgy envelopes, Olympic breakfasts, and plans on the horizon(s) | 26 Jul 2024 | 00:06:17 | |
Marlon stops in for a brief solo episode and runs down what the NFP's Prime Ministerial candidate is saying about voting with RN, the possible envelope fraud in a recent National Assembly vote, and some meetings of the various parliamentary commissions. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Assembly Commissions, Airwaves and Asahi Olympics | 24 Jul 2024 | 00:11:21 | |
Marlon & Olly reunite for a duo episode, the first one in awhile, and discuss Olympic news, the latest updates from the National Assembly commissions, and polemics around athletes being allowed to compete in the Olympics under their national flags or not. They also discuss the potential new Prime Minister's podcast, and take a diversion into Japanese politics, believe it or not. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Another NFP Candidate for Macron to Reject | 23 Jul 2024 | 00:05:54 | |
Marlon looks at the new joint New Popular Front candidate for Prime Minister, Lucie Castets. She's a long time civil servant with a public profile of advocating for public services and close links to the Socialist Party. Everybody in the New Popular Front is publicly in favor of her being the one - but Macron's already saying that he still needs a majority and won't be appointing anybody new until after the Olympics. Don't get too attached! Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Which Way French leftist? | 22 Jul 2024 | 00:15:41 | |
The left has different visions for its future, Macron attempts to call an Olympics truce and there is yet more accusations of antisemitism flung at critics of Israel. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Project Périclès and The National Assembly Bureaus | 21 Jul 2024 | 00:07:10 | |
Marlon takes a solo look at who one some of the new elected positions in the National Assembly. Marlon also briefly reviews Project Périclès, a 150 million euro plan by an ultrareactionary Catholic billionaire to help the RN win the 2027 presidential and municipal elections. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Up all night to get lucky | 20 Jul 2024 | 00:17:19 | |
Marlon's away so Olly runs you through yet another turning of the tables as the left regains the balance of power within the assembly. He also talks about Megabasin protests and climate change. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager Marlon's book, which we have somehow forgotten to plug: https://www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/zemmour-and-gaullism | |||
| Bourgeois Bloc Blues w/ Bruno Amable | 20 Jul 2024 | 00:53:31 | |
Olly & Marlon host Bruno Amable, the co-author with Stefano Palombarini of The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France's Political Crisis. Bruno's a political economist and a Professor at the University of Geneva, so this guys knows his stuff. This is Olly's favorite book, so we really get into it. Marlon hasn't read it but we have a good discussion about what the bourgeois bloc was, what it is, what alliances it's pursuing, its relationship to racism, and the way it dissimulates - to itself and others. Bruno's recent publications: https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/dehes/membres/bruno-amable/ Bruno's Twitter: @bruno_amable Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| 17 Deadly Sins | 19 Jul 2024 | 00:29:03 | |
The first vote since the election is held, on who will be the head of the assembly and the Macronists play dirty to win. The left remains without a PM candidate, and Marlon discusses rumours of a plot in Drancy. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Bello again, Baron Noir? (fixed) | 17 Jul 2024 | 00:22:27 | |
Marlon is away so Olly takes you through the complex negotiations on the eve of choosing a prime minister. The left still doesn't have a candidate! An intervention by friend of the show Stefano Palombarini puts Marine Tondellier in a tight spot and provokes a revolt in the ranks of the greens. The PS and the Communists have other ideas. The left did manage to find a unity candidate for the presidency of the national assembly however, and Olly goes over what he thinks is wrong with an article comparing Olivier Faure to Rickwaert from Baron Noir. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| A pied-noir, a Trotskyist, and an ecologist walk into a bar | 17 Jul 2024 | 00:20:23 | |
And she says "ow, that hurts!" In this episode Olly and Marlon discuss Laurence Tubiana, the PS, PCF, and Green candidate for NFP Prime Minister. They go over why LFI opposes her, her past and present Macron-compatibility, and her eco-anarchist offspring. Olly goes into one possible centrist scenario for a President of the National Assembly, which will start to be decided on Thursday, and Marlon discusses how some long ago LFI parliamentary strategy may help the left overturn the retirement reform...if they can get a Prime Minister in the door at all. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Macron goes to Belgrade, Panot to the Counsel, Le Pen to court | 29 Aug 2024 | 00:20:23 | |
Macron meets with mayors, goes to Belgrade and is distrusted by a majority of the French people. Mathilde Panot goes to the Constitutional Counsel and Le Pen goes to court. Send us questions and suggestions for our Friday interviews at flep24pod@gmail.com. Cover our newspaper expenses. https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| The left's forever war, the centre's civil war and Arcom's airwar. (fixed) | 15 Jul 2024 | 00:19:35 | |
The first upload of this episode cut half the recording for some reason, but it should be fixed now. Olly and Marlon discuss the day's news - this includes another front in the left's forever war, a rift opening up in the centrist camp, purges of the CFDT union of RN supporters and the battle for a spot on publicly funded tv continues. Song: Prose Elite by Medine | |||
| Headlines: Left's PM power struggle continues, a new right wing party? More MacronoLepenism | 15 Jul 2024 | 00:22:08 | |
Olly and Marlon recap today's French headlines - most notably the fact that a week has gone an still no PM has emerged. Olly's twitter @reality_manager Marlon's twitter @MarlonEttinger | |||
| Huguette Bello's Prime Minister Shot | 14 Jul 2024 | 00:09:16 | |
Marlon discusses La Réunion president Huguette Bello's unlikely Prime Ministerial shot. He also goes over some of the objections to Bello in the role, including her positions on gay marriage over the years. And Marlon touches on who in French politics is condemning what looks like a Trump assassination attempt. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||
| Bruno's Bercy Boys Build A Budget | 12 Jul 2024 | 00:19:43 | |
Marlon and Olly discuss the latest left wing grouping in France, L'Après, an outfit set up by some of the LFI dissidents. But are things as they seem in the new group? And who are they preparing the after for? More rigamarole on where the government will come from - the left or the right? The unions threaten to strike come the Olympics if Macron doesn't name an NFP Prime Minister quick. Plus, economic news: Bercy is at a loss for how to plan all their budget cuts with all the political instability, and French M&A shops are waiting for things to cool off too. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager | |||