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The two Europes: Macron, Salvini, and the battle for a continent

Who is the anonymous New York Times writer?

Sebastian Faulks: Paris Echo

What has Pope Francis covered up?

‘Must you be so negative?’
‘The Labour conference is left, left, further left, and then on the far left.’
‘Item 1: The apostrophe...’
Puzzles and games
And finally

I’m an equal of Socrates and Wittgenstein — and if anyone disputes it they can go to hell

The grandest view of Gstaad and the surrounding Saanen valley bar none — and that includes the vista from my…

29 Sep 2018

450 bottles of red? What more could I want from a neighbour

I have a friend here in this French village to which we moved just over a week ago. He is…

29 Sep 2018

Why mutilate a perfectly good pronoun?

‘I’m just going to pop yourself on hold,’ said the girl from the online shopping firm who was trying to…

29 Sep 2018