Sign in

Charles Devellennes

@cdevellennes.bsky.social
113 followers 212 following 17 posts

Political and social theorist. Author, Commentator on French politics, Sunday philosopher. All views my own etc. charlesdevellennes.substack.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The battle for the centre has started: the French presidential elections are in full swing, and signs of division for the heirs of Macronism are showing. Read my thoughts on Macronism after Macron here: charlesdevellennes.substack.com/p/macronism-...
charlesdevellennes.substack.com
Macronism after Macron
Attal, Philippe and Glucksmann battle for the centre.
050
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The French National Assembly passed the social security budget bill yesterday - against the odds. I reflect on what this means for the future of parliamentary democracy in France here: open.substack.com/pub/charlesd...
open.substack.com
The appearance of parliamentary democracy
The vote in favour of the social security budget in the National Assembly yesterday appears as a welcome victory for parliamentary democracy.
000
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Two of my books, the Macron Regime and the Gilets Jaunes and the New Social Contract, are on sale this month on the Bristol University Press website (£12.50 and £10). Use the code BUP11 for a 50% discount: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/results?Sear...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
Bristol University Press
000
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I wrote a piece for Damage Magazine on why Bayrou's centrist gamble did not succeed. It lacked a fundamental ingredient of politics: imagination; and it lacked the ability to convince the French people to make this vision happen. You can read the full text here: damagemag.com/2025/09/17/t...
damagemag.com
The Centrist Blackmail No Longer Works
On September 8th, François Bayrou became the first Prime Minister to have lost a confidence vote during the Fifth Republic. His demise is a clear indication that the centrist project lacks the imagina...
120
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
As the holidays come to an end, I reflect on the meaning of the vacances for the French - and say "bye-bye Bayrou" after he committed political harakiri: charlesdevellennes.substack.com/p/bye-bayrou
charlesdevellennes.substack.com
Bye Bayrou
As Emmanuel Macron enters his ninth year in office, the fourth prime minister of his troubled second mandate is about to lose his post.
020
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I have a piece in Compact Magazine on the raids against RN offices last week, but also more widely on opposition politics in France. The dangers of Bonapartism: www.compactmag.com/article/how-...
compactmag.com
How France Chokes Opposition Parties
On July 9, 2025, 20 armed French police raided the offices of the Rassemblement National (RN), France’s far right party. Two judges had opened a case against the party a year before, after receiving a...
020
Reposted by Charles Devellennes
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
JOBS! Two post-doctoral Research Fellowships with this Leverhulme-funded project on 'the impacts of New Labour on the lives and life-courses of those born around the year 2000'. I'm on the steering committee, and it's going to be great: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk
Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow (Multiple positions, fixed term)
We are now recruiting 2 full time Research Fellows to work with Stephen Farrall and colleagues at Warwick (Emily Gray) and Queen Mary College, University of London (Maria Grasso) on their research int...
12118
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I have a short piece on hope as part of a series on emotions and freedom in the Green European Journal you can read here: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/snapshots-gr...
greeneuropeanjournal.eu
Snapshots: Grief, Extended Reality, Hope
As our emotions are triggered and compromised in a changing world, what are the indications for our freedom?
000
Reposted by Charles Devellennes
Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 24/04/2025
📣 Come join us! 📣 A two-year postdoc in Enlightenment Studies @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and Oxford's lively community of researchers working on the long 18thC @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, Modern Languages, and beyond. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Applications welcome by 30 May.
02413
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
My Positive Atheism book was reviewed recently by Ruggero Sciuto in French Studies. I wrote a short reply to the review, along with other thoughts, here: open.substack.com/pub/charlesd...
open.substack.com
Positive atheism reviewed
A short response to Sciuto
010
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Important read on the political reach of the French oligarchy
031
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Speaking tomorrow at this conference in Vercelli on ‘Diderot in Tahiti’.
000
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I wrote a short piece about Le Pen’s ineligibility and the problem of democracy here: open.substack.com/pub/charlesd...
open.substack.com
Le Pen, ineligibility, and the problem of democracy
For years Marine Le Pen was positioning herself as the ‘Holy-than-Thou’ politician.
010
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
My book, ‘The Gilets Jaunes and the New Social Contract’, is now available in Korean! With a new preface for the translation. Thrilled to have received my copy, with a cracking new cover. @brisunipress.bsky.social
001
Reposted by Charles Devellennes
Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Parisiennes, Parisiens, un rappel pour vous. 20 mars, 19h30, Musée du Quai Branly, pour parler de la poussée souverainiste en Afrique de l'Ouest
quaibranly.fr
Détails de l'événement - musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
Arts et Civilisations d’Afrique, d’Asie, d’Océanie et des Amériques | Expositions, Spectacles, Concerts, Colloques, Conférences et Université Populaire. Du Niger au Burkina Faso en passant par le Mali, des juntes ont pris le pouvoir ces dernières années (2020, 2022, 2023) en Afrique de l’Ouest.
11511
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Hit the nail on the head. A perverse incentives structure that needs to go.
020
Reposted by Charles Devellennes
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
NEW from me in the FT today... The UK's university 'system' is now in freefall. How on Earth did the disaster unfold? Read all about it: www.ft.com/content/0ec7...
ft.com
The UK’s academic recession is in full swing
This university crisis is a grim scrabble for numbers
26263141
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is a sad day for democracy. That one must defend the right of everyone to stand up for their beliefs, however distasteful we might find them, is a fundamental principle worth preserving. Democracy is stronger than its liberal critics allow.
000
Reposted by Charles Devellennes
LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We're hiring a Fellow in Political Theory! @lsegovernment.bsky.social : jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
jobs.lse.ac.uk
LSE Fellow Political Theory
LSE Fellow Political Theory, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;">...
01313
Reposted by Charles Devellennes
Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 25/02/2025
Timely analysis from Corey Robin in @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the dangers of presidential power (kindly drawing on my book) jacobin.com/2025/02/marx...
jacobin.com
Marx on Trump’s Abuses of Power
Karl Marx saw how presidential systems with strong executives threatened to eclipse the democratic power of the legislature.
082
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Bayrou is accused of lying to MPs over a sexual scandal in his local Catholic school. What does this mean for laïcité and post-truth? I explore the latest here: open.substack.com/pub/charlesd...
open.substack.com
Will yet another abuse scandal in the Catholic Church be Bayrou’s downfall?
On post-truth and the hypocrisy of laïcité
000
Charles Devellennes @cdevellennes.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I will be in Sciences Po Lille as professeur invité on the following three Mondays - 24/2, 3/3 and 10/3. If you're in Lille and want to grab a coffee, let me know!
050