Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days.

In this weeks episode, we discuss:

Reports are circulating that president Emmanuel Macron intends to bestow France's highest award, the Legion d'honneur, on the city of London, for providing a base to the leader of the French Resistance, Charles de Gaulle during the Second World War. Is it a meaningless gesture, eighty years too late? Or one that could serve to remind both nations of their shared history in a post-Brexit world?

Belgium and the Netherlands are considering extending their already liberal euthanasia laws to give dementia sufferers the right to die. The move is supported by liberal parties in both countries, as well as the majority-Catholic Flanders region in Belgium. But following some controversial deaths by euthanasia, right-wing parties are calling for a review of existing laws.

People across New Zealand have been filming themselvesturning over magazinesfeaturing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on the front cover, posting their videos to social media and hashtagging them#TurnArdern. The protesterscomplains that the PM should spend more timefixingthe countrysproblemsand less time doingphoto shoots. Is Arderns star on the wane?

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