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John Lichfield: Note to M&S – Paris is pining for your sausages
I have terrible news for Parisian Anglophiles and British expatriates in Paris. The British sausage and the pork pie are not, after all, returning to the French capital.
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John Lichfield: So what ever happened to France's Socialists?
Monday, 17 January 2011
President Nicolas Sarkozy will almost certainly run again in 2012, though he has yet to say so. Marine Le Pen said yesterday that she would mount a powerful challenge on the far-right. Centrist candidates are breeding like flies.
John Lichfield: Enfants terribles and their twins
Monday, 10 January 2011
Notebook: A welcome, and rare, experiment in fraternité
John Lichfield: Are we looking for a new message – or a new Messiah?
Friday, 7 January 2011
The success of Stephane Hessel's book may tell us a great deal. There is an incoherent and, as yet undirected popular anger and anxiety
Don’t let’s be beastly to the Belgians
Monday, 27 December 2010
John Lichfield: I share a distinction with Johnny Hallyday, Audrey Hepburn and a village on the Belgo-Luxembourg border which is nothing but cigarette shops on one side of the street and trees and cows on the other. I am half-Belgian.
Poppies and the souring of an honourable tradition
Saturday, 6 November 2010
John Lichfield: The poppy is a symbol of sacrifice and death; it is also a symbol of renewal and hope.
John Lichfield: Rolls-Royce stands to lose more than Qantas if investigation finds fault
Friday, 5 November 2010
The engine failure on the A380 superjumbo is a potentially serious blow to the European aircraft industry – and especially to the British engine-maker Rolls-Royce.
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