玛丽娜·勒庞和唐纳德·特朗普是纵火犯，却扮演起消防员来。奈杰尔·法拉奇发现，在安迪·伯纳姆的英国，这一把戏更难演下去。在一方代表混乱的选举中，承诺秩序的政党几乎总能获胜。多年动荡的保守党执政后的公众疲劳，比基尔·斯塔默纲领中的任何政策更能解释工党在2024年的压倒性胜利。在海峡对岸，极右翼国民联盟（RN）领袖玛丽娜·勒庞目前有望赢得明年的总统选举，她承诺为一个在令人疲惫的停滞与爆炸性危机之间循环了多年的国家“恢复权威与安全”。
Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump are arsonists who play at being firefighters. Nigel Farage is finding that act harder to pull off in Andy Burnham’s Britain An election where one side represents chaos will nearly always be won by the party that promises order instead. Public fatigue after years of turbulent Tory rule accounted for Labour’s 2024 landslide victory more than any policy in Keir Starmer’s manifesto. Across the Channel, Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally (RN), is currently on course to win next year’s presidential poll with a pledge of “restored authority and security” for a country that has spent years cycling between enervating stasis and explosive crisis.
近日，市中心陷入火海、商店遭抢劫的场景，因为学生示威演变为骚乱，这为勒庞增添了筹码。街头对抗在法国比在大多数稳定的民主国家更为常见，但这种破坏之任何标准来看都令人不安。拉斐尔·贝尔是《卫报》专栏作家
Le Pen has been boosted in recent days by scenes of city centres ablaze and shops being looted as student demonstrations mutated into riots. Street confrontation is a more standard feature of the political repertoire in France than in most settled democracies, but the destruction was disturbing by any measure. Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist