Agnes C. Poirier

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

Arrestation de l'ex-prince Andrew : le séisme de trop pour la monarchie britannique ? Le fils d'Elizabeth II, déjà déchu de ses titres princiers, a été détenu par la police britannique en raison de ses liens avec Jeffrey Epstein. L'institution est désormais en terre inconnue.

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

FRDH on the BBC: Taxi Driver at 50, New York Then and Now In this BBC radio documentary for the 50th anniversary of Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver, FRDH host Michael Goldfarb's look at New York as it was then , when Travis Bickle drove the night-shift,

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 A mesure que les archives liées à Jeffrey Epstein sont rendues publiques, une évidence s’impose à Londres : l'affaire révèle la complaisance d’un système social où aristocratie, politique et finance s...

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).

The Epstein scandal has punctured all the age-old myths about the French elite | Agnès Poirier Suddenly, venerable figures presumed immune to sordid compromise have been exposed – although some have shown that moral courage is possible, says political commentator Agnès Poirier

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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 » L’ouverture du consulat français sur le territoire autonome du Danemark est prévue vendredi 6 février. Alors que Donald Trump a évoqué l’hypothèse d’annexer ce territoire, cette nomination envoie « un signal politique », assume Jean-Noël Barrot.

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.