An American friend came to dinner last night wearing this. « Enough is enough! » with a pun on Nuuk, Greenland’s capital city.
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Journalist, writer & broadcaster. 📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury) 📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld) ✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
An American friend came to dinner last night wearing this. « Enough is enough! » with a pun on Nuuk, Greenland’s capital city.
Bournazel is unlikely to make it to the second round. He said he would support neither Dati nor Grégoire.
What may actually happen, however, is that enough Parisians decide that after 25 years of left-wing rule, they want a change in power. It's called Democracy.
NB: Paris is in no danger of veering Brownshirts
The French Left is losing its marbles. #Paris’s left-wing candidate for mayor (elections on 15 & 22 March) warns that the city may face a “brown wave”—yes, like the Brownshirts, the paramilitary arm of the Nazi Party.
Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/
"How much longer will the French tolerate the rancour of a septuagenarian whose perpetual provocations saturate the political landscape?"
@ericchol.bsky.social in fine form in this week's @lexpress.fr
#JeanLucMelenchon
My piece about Andrew and the Monarchy 👇
Arrestation de l'ex-prince Andrew : le séisme de trop pour la monarchie britannique ?
www.lexpress.fr/monde/europe...
Un journal bien de gauche.
Indeed
Leaders and MPs who fuel this rhetoric must be held accountable. The murder of #Quentin is a tragedy that should never occur in a democracy.
Charlie Hebdo says it as it is: La France Insoumise, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has created a toxic political climate. For years, it has smeared opponents as “fascists,” “Zionists,” or “Nazis,” demonizing disagreement.
Une femme française extraordinaire
@mgemancipation.bsky.social
I listened to it during an insomnia, great work as always from legendary Michael Goldfarb.
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👇 #Munich
@raphaelkahane.bsky.social
I joined @RaphaelKahane to discuss the Epstein case and its global impact. Watch here:
www.france24.com/fr/%C3%A9mis...
Affaire Epstein : plus qu'un scandale sexuel, un scandale de classe profondément britannique
www.lexpress.fr/monde/europe...
Read beyond the title (which are never the writer’s choice).
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Epstein scandal has punctured all the age-old myths about the French elite | Agnès Poirier
Always a privilege to take part in the #Cannes preselection of British films!
Sun King interlude ✨
40 of the 92 giant carpets commissioned by Louis XIV for the Louvre Palace, shown side by side at the Grand Palais in Paris. Absolutely phwoar.
It’s called a notebook…
My Notebook in The Times today.
(I don’t write titles!)
Groenland : Jean-Noël Poirier nommé consul général de France à Nuuk, « pour marquer notre volonté d’approfondir notre présence »
“It is precisely because I am of the Left that I am no longer of the Left.” French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut
Wonderful news.
One moment of lightness.