Richard Pooley12 minA Bull’s Nose Ring – French Politics in 2022Not long after my wife and I came to live in the village of Vayrac in south-west France in 2013 we set up an English-French group...
Michael Carberry6 minThe statesman and the clownUntil very recently, the name Volodymyr Zelensky was probably unknown to most people outside Eastern Europe. How that has changed.
David Lee6 minMacron again? A soon-to-be French citizen’s take on the French presidential electionAs my life is now in France, married to a French wife, I embarked on applying for French citizenship in late 2020, whilst still...
Lynda Goetz5 minWill Putin’s war make Westerners realise what they really should be fighting for?The events of the last few weeks in Ukraine have brought home to many in the West the realities of what we now call the geopolitical...
Richard Pooley7 minIs Latvia next?What do I know of Ukraine? Little, even now. I have never been there and have only been to Russia three times...