Reading Time: 3 minutes UK elections come and go, but some things remain the same. Namely, my not being able to vote in a UK election. It is strange how feelings associated with citizenship can be so diametrically opposed. In 2017, I was so proud to have been able to participate in the French presidential elections. I felt a […]
Month: October 2019
Vins Au Féminin – Que Les Hommes Aillent Se Faire Boire!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ne vous méprenez pas. J’aime et respecte les femmes et il ne pourrait en être autrement, ma propre mère est une femme. Mais je dois admettre que mon épouse a un penchant pour les vins blancs doux ou les rosés, et cela m’agace. Cela aurait pu être bien pire pour Colombelle, notre petit […]
Sexism And Wine – When Colombelle Meets Adam
Reading Time: 3 minutes It could have been much worse for Colombelle, our sweet little white wine tasting of exotic fruit and wild flowers. Instead of meeting up with Adam, a respectable red, she could have suffered the displeasure of having to pass the best part of the evening with an Arrogant Frog. Discrimination starts in the vineyards, […]
Le Sac À Main De Sa Gracieuse Majesté
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cet article va être sexiste et … court. Ayant vu une photo de la reine d’Angleterre dans un journal Londonien haut de gamme, je me pose la question existentielle suivante: que contient son sac à main? J’avoue que j’avais l’habitude de me promener dans la rue avec mon propre sac à main – un sac […]
Silly Old Bag!!
Reading Time: 3 minutes This post is going to be sexist and…short. Having seen a picture of The Queen in an upmarket newspaper, I ask myself the following existential question – what the hell does she carry in her handbag? I admit that I used to walk around the street with my own personal handbag – a doggy bag […]
Brexit – “Enough Is Enough!”
Reading Time: 3 minutes This post may offend or even classify me as a Leaver, but I maintain the firm conviction that enough is enough. The UK has struck a deal with the EU, and that should signal the UK’s departure from the EU. It may be easy for me to say that, covered by my dual citizenship and […]
BREXIT – La Lettre de Monsieur Johnson
Reading Time: 2 minutes Oliver Letwin a mis une clé dans les roues de mon chariot galopant à toute vitesse vers le Brexit, sous la forme d’un amendement me contraignant à vous écrire cette lettre. Les hommes peuvent faire tout ce que font les femmes. Nous avons d’abord eu Gina Miller qui a arrêté Theresa May dans […]
Johnson’s EU Letter – Brussels, Brussel Or Bruxelles?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Boris Johnson is being forced into writing a very difficult letter to the EU, starting with the envelope. Does he know that there are three different ways you can spell the Belgian capital – Brussels, Brussel, and Bruxelles. Complicated, isn’t it. Well not really, because Brexit can be solved if Donald Tusk loses the letter […]
Archimedes’ Principle, The Floating Border And Brexit
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is said that Greek legend Archimedes of Syracuse stepped into a bath and discovered a principle – the buoyant force on an object submerged in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid that is displaced by that object. More than 2000 years later, the DUP leader Arlene Foster has just discovered […]
La France Accepterait-Elle Un “Backstop” Corse?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Les commentaires d’un lord anglais lors de l’émission Newsnight de la BBC ont jeté un doute sérieux sur la capacité qu’ont les anglais soutenant le Brexit de comprendre vraiment ce qui se passe, notamment en Irlande du Nord. Au sujet du fameux “backstop” irlandais, Lord Peter Lilley a suggéré que si la France quittait l’UE, […]