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Hello and welcome to Intelligence Squared.
I'm producer Faiyi Adevita.
Coming up, Nabila Ramdani, the writer and broadcaster, discusses her book Fixing France, a critique of the current french political landscape, asking whether there's still space for liberty, equality and fraternity in today's republic.
Joining Nabilah in conversation is Marine Khan, economics editor for the Times newspaper.
Let's join Marine now with more.
Nabilah Ramdani is a french algerian writer from Paris who works as an academic, a journalist and a broadcaster, mainly covering France, the arab and the muslim world.
She has written for publications ranging from the Guardian to the Daily Mail and the Washington Post, and broadcast for outlets like Sky News, Al Jazeera and CNN.
Her new book is called fixing how to repair a broken republic.
We're going to spend the next 30 or 40 minutes talking about Nabilah's motivations for writing the book, some of her prognostications about the state of France today, and also, I think, a book which is incredibly prescient because by the time you've already hit publish, it seems that so many of the warnings that are in these pages are playing out in the French Senate, in the french assembly and across the streets of France as we speak.
And maybe just on that note, this is a book which has, I think, a relatively provocative title, perhaps especially because you're writing it in English for an international audience, I imagine, to try and understand some of the pathologies of modern France.
Why Nabilah, did you think now was the time to write this book?