My Neighbours,

The Extreme Right has come to represent hope to people who see their lives as being hopeless. More than ten million of them- barely hanging onto employment or already unemployed – lit the fuse on a bomb at the time of the French presidential election, in May 2017. Will they bring down democracy with that most democratic of weapons, the right to vote? In a village in the east of France I observe my neighbours – decent people all- as they prepare to vote…