The campaign for 2022 is moving to Overseas Territories, Great Britain facing a tidal wave of Covid and game bars, a new trend for older children

There were protests in Guadeloupe, the third referendum in New Caledonia (96% against independence but more than 56% abstention) and now three presidential candidates are going this week to the territories of Overseas.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon leaves for Guadeloupe and Martinique. Fabien Roussel goes to Reunion. As for Marine Le Pen, she will stop first via Mayotte before also joining the Reunion coast. And we wanted to understand why the candidates are now going to the overseas territories, and especially to know if there was an expectation vis-à-vis a ballot whose stakes are often centered on the metropolis. And it is to Audrey Célestine, political scientist, lecturer at the University of Lille, that we asked all these questions.

Let’s go to Great Britain now! The Covid is back there, and it hits hard: it’s a “tidal wave” said Boris Johnson last night before officially announcing today the first global death linked to the Omicron variant.

Faced with the wave, the solution is quite found: vaccinate, more people, more quickly. And the British Prime Minister has every interest in this solution working because his political future has darkened in recent days. Several parties, which took place at 10 Downing Street around Christmas time last year, when indoor gatherings were banned in the kingdom, have tainted its credibility.

Board games, we all have childhood memories. You too have known the small tensions around the scrabble board, the cheating at Kem’s, the shouting matches at Monopoly or the family atmosphere suddenly sullen because someone forgot to count the trumps on the tarot.

And today, board games are no longer just memories for young adults. People over 18 represent 15% of sales of games and toys in France, a figure that has exploded since confinement thanks to the diversity of games that exist today.

There are also more and more “game bars” where you share a pint around a deck of cards. Margaux Queffélec, our reporter at Quart d’Heure, went to put her microphone on the edge of a game board at the “Grands Gamins”.

Guest: Audrey Célestine, political scientist specializing in overseas territories

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