
John Lichfield
A veteran foreign editor and France correspondent, John is a regular columnist for The Local and one of the foremost experts on France writing in English.

OPINION: There is no chance of a sensible debate on the French government's immigration bill
Immigration - like pensions - is a subject which in France anaesthetises balance and common-sense, writes John Lichfield, which explains why the government's new immigration bill is becoming virtually the new definition of a mountain out of a molehill.