BY OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT CYRANO SIMONE DE GAULLE

THERE WAS NOT a sign of embarrassment on his face when he spoke; though the irony screamed to the heavens backed by a chorus of hypocrisy. Do as I say, not as I do, President Macron told his people. I have no children but you must have more to save the Republic.

“It’s a fascinating insight into the minds of the elite that now dominates the Western World,” says Ivan Mongol of Diversity Ends In Individualism, Dummy, a fringe academic charity based in Geneva . “They are Plato’s Philosopher Rulers, a caste who know best, whose role is to bless those they rule with their genius. Nothing else. And this is the result. A childless man telling his people to have more children.”