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Olly Haynes

Olly Haynes is a freelance journalist covering politics, culture and social movements.

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Articles

20 October 2026

Why France’s Student Protesters Won’t Back Down

Rightwing Journalists Are Openly Backing the Guy Who Came up With the ‘Great Replacement’ Theory

23 January 2025

How the Establishment Laundered Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Reputation

Even in Defeat, the French Far Right Is in Its Strongest Position Yet

6 February 2024

Two Tory Ex-Chancellors Met With French Far-Right Politician Eric Zemmour in London

17 January 2024

France’s Youngest Ever Prime Minister Is Part of Macronism’s Shift to the Right

11 December 2023

Spies, Surveillance and a ‘State Within the State’: How France’s Richest Man Built His Luxury Empire

Meet the French MP Who Went From Cleaning Hotel Rooms to Taking on the Country’s Political Elite

Seven Years After Cops Killed Her Brother, Assa Traoré is at the Frontline of France’s Fight Against Police Violence

French Climate Activists Are Waging War Against Water Hoarders

French Protesters Are Thinking Up New Ways to Stop Macron’s Pension Reforms

French Leftwing Publisher Detained by UK Counter-Terrorism Police

France’s ‘Robin Hood’ Energy Workers Are Sending Cheap Electricity to Schools and Hospitals

1 February 2023

Could Pension Reform End Macron?

Terfs Are Marginal in France. A New Media Platform Plans to Keep It That Way

‘We Want to Breathe’: Anti-Racist, Environmental and Gilets Jaunes Campaigners Are Joining Forces in France

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