Will the far-right populist nationalist leader Marine Le Pen or her protege Jordan Bardella be elected president of France in April 2027? Enda O’Doherty, who previously worked on the foreign desk of this newspaper and is the author of the forthcoming The Dark Side of France: Thirteen Chapters in the History of the French Far Right, cites the journalistic adage known as Betteridge’s Law, which states that “any newspaper headline that ends with a question mark can be answered by the word No”. Victor Mallet, a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, writes in Far-Right France: Le Pen, Bardella and...