Paris’ long-held reputation as a protest city would have been largely lost on Benjamin Netanyahu this week.

This is the year when many expect Emmanuel Macron to move up from boy wonder to undisputed leader of Europe. The French president turned 40 in December and, during his state visit to China, observers certainly thought he looked ready for the challenge.

Ask former colleagues of Britain’s deposed Secretary of State for International Development Priti Patel what they really think of her and you can see why her ministerial career was so short lived.

Ask a British person what an Arab looks like and descriptions are likely to fall somewhere between the enigmatic desert chieftain played by Omar Sharif in “Lawrence of Arabia” and the tawny, unshaven terrorist schemers in “Homeland.” Ignorance abounds and, at present, misimpressions tend to veer