Thirty-two-year-old Julien Rochedy is a former rising star in French politics. As a member of the Front National, the young Ardéchois achieved his highest responsibilities by becoming Marine Le Pen's political advisor for the 2012 presidential campaign, and then by becoming director of the Front National de la Jeunesse the same year. However, the ideological evolution of Marine Le Pen and the party gradually disgusted him - as he explains in a long-form video posted on his YouTube channel. So, in 2014, Julien Rochedy gave up all political involvement. Today, he is fully committed to metapolitics, where, he says, the aim is to lead the fight on the terrain of ideas. To this end, he publishes books, gives lectures and posts videos on the Internet. It was on the internet, without knowing anything about his political commitment, that I discovered Julien Rochedy before asking him for an interview.

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LONG FORM INTERVIEW, Indra Crittin | If Claire Pommet, aka Pomme, is rightly described as a singer-songwriter, think of her more as a watercolorist. For her latest musical project, her pen - well, her paintbrush - was bathed in a sea of tears, an ocean of uncertainty. What she portrays is based on the transparency of her emotions - a palette of authentic colors. The artist from Lyon shares her lack of self-confidence, her fear of death, and her other experiences in a way that allows us to identify with her, while developing our own interpretation of her work. No wonder her work is minimalist: few layers of paint are needed for the light to reflect. The woman who was deeply influenced by Barbara, the lady in black, and who began to make a name for herself with YouTube covers, now takes us into her poetic world, at once dark and luminous. Her latest travel diary? A (final) reissue of her second album, «Les Failles», voted Album révélation at the 2020 Victoires de la musique awards. A far cry from her first album, which was A peu ce qu'elle voulait, this opus bears witness to her fully assumed artistic choices. Let's chat with this gifted young artist, who desacralizes taboos and writes magnificent love songs.

He launched his publishing house in 1986. Since then, thirty-four years have passed. Bernard Campiche is an exception in the publishing world. A solitary editor, his love of texts is reflected in his meticulous editorial work. In the course of his career, he has published major French-speaking authors such as Anne Cuneo, Alexandre Voisard, Jean-Pierre Monnier, Anne-Lise Grobéty and Jacques Chessex - to name but a few. We met with one of the most meticulous publishers in French-speaking Switzerland in Orbe in September, prior to his move to Sainte-Croix.

LONG-FORM INTERVIEW, Antoine Bernhard and Max Moeschler | Snarky Puppy is undoubtedly one of the greatest contemporary music groups. Founded in Texas in 2004, the three-time Grammy Award-winning band explores a unique musical genre at the crossroads of jazz, funk, R&B, and so many other styles. As part of the «Autumn of Music» event organized by the Montreux Jazz Festival, we had the chance to meet the three band members, who were at the Montreux Palace for the occasion: Michael League (bass and bandleader), Bill Laurance (keyboards), and Justin Stanton (trumpet and keyboards). It was an exclusive conversation in a magnificent setting! Here, we’ve tried to capture the most interesting parts of our discussion.

LONG FORM INTERVIEW, Jonas Follonier | He's one of Switzerland's leading politicians in the fight against Islamism. Even if he doesn't like the word «combat» (he prefers the word «cause»), Mohamed Hamdaoui has made it one of his priority themes, making himself a highly committed player in the debate, even if it means over-emotionalizing. His background no doubt has something to do with it: born in the Hoggar, this Tuareg loved a woman who, in the 1980s, was kidnapped by Algerian Islamists because she refused to wear the veil. These sowers of terror beheaded her. The murder in France of Professor Samuel Paty by a radicalized Muslim using the same modus operandi shook him to the core. Interview with a former socialist turned PDC, who doesn't consider Switzerland immune to political Islam.

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At the heart of England and its divides

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