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Watch Your Language!
Sensational headlines about the rising toxic tide of Americanisms inundating our defenceless language produce predictable, periodic...
Denis Lyons
12 min read
Cockerels, Bells and Shitty Smells “A way of life, not a museum.”
When my wife and I moved to France in 2013, we spent the first seven months in a rented house on the southern edge of Brive-la-Gaillarde...
Richard Pooley
8 min read
A cry of anger from the back of beyond
The death last month of Shaw Sheet, the magazine I used to write for, made me review some of the 89 articles I contributed to it. One...
Richard Pooley
8 min read
A Fundamental Problem: the unholy alliance between fundamentalist religion and extremist politics.
What do Donald Trump’s runaway victories in the all the Republican Primary elections to date and the slaughter of over thirty thousand...
Michael Carberry
9 min read
President Macron’s “mad” promise will be kept. Notre Dame will reopen by Christmas.
There wasn’t the usual levity when I walked into my French village’s southern boulangerie early on Tuesday morning. The queue was quiet...
Richard Pooley
7 min read
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