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Perhaps it’s tasteless to make the point that maybe nobody will be happier to see Jean-Marie Le Pen buried than his daughter Marine. The founder of...
‘Notre-Dame has been restored to its full level of glory, and even more so,’ said the President-elect Donald J. Trump this week, as he confirmed...
A new Anglo-Saxon barbarism has entered the French political language: ‘government shutdown.’ There is excited talk of civil servants not being...
It’s extremely difficult to imagine that today’s meeting between Kier Starmer and Emmanuel Macron produced anything substantive beyond a photo...
The flawless launch of SpaceX’s 5,000-ton Starship and its Super Heavy Booster, and the precision recovery of the booster on its launch pad, has...
After the binge, the bill? The new French government of Michel Barnier presented the main lines of its proposed 2025 budget on Thursday evening,...
Béziers, France The most significant application to date of artificial intelligence and unmanned aerial aircraft has been unveiled: the Poopcopter....
Béziers, France The École Mairan in Béziers in southern France is a happy neighbourhood elementary school housed in a superb renovated 19th-century...
Overlook for the moment the shenanigans surrounding French prime minister Michel Barnier’s attempt to cobble together a new government. One...
The spectacular resignation of Thierry Breton from the European Commission suggests that the president of the European Commission Ursula von der...
Who will be the next prime minister of France? Almost two months after the centre lost its majority in the National Assembly, the potential...
It’s the rentrée politique this week in France, the start of the political year, a bit earlier than normal. It promises to be a macedoine of...
Popcorn not being the traditional French treat to celebrate an entertaining spectacle, break out the caramel au beurre salé. J.K. Rowling and...
Another of my ageing Bedales school cohort has died and so there’s an ad hoc reunion in his honour at the pub in Steep, the bucolic village near...
All the world’s a stage and the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Paris today is the greatest stage so far for the comedian president. Emmanuel...