Reading Time: 2 minutes The message to come out from the UK general election is loud and clear. Parliament has passed the withdrawal agreement and Brexit will happen on 31 January. Three and a half years of bickering and both the UK and the EU will leave the divorce courtroom and go their separate ways. Never mind about the […]
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Boris Johnson’s License To Get It Wrong
Reading Time: 3 minutes In football, you would say that the scale of the victory was largely due to the weakness of the opposition. You can still win handsomely by fielding a second string team if you are playing against amateurs who have spent more time at the local pub than on the training field. Boris Johnson’s large majority […]
City’s Tribal War: Manchester City 1-2 Manchester United
Reading Time: 3 minutes This was terrible. Not the result because let’s face it, City cannot win the league this year unless Liverpool’s entire squad is hit by meningitis. My 14-year-old boy supports Manchester United anyway, so how can I be upset? No, what is really upsetting and terrible is the moronic gestures of a small proportion of the […]
Prince Andrew – Forgetting The Bar, Remembering The Pizza!
Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you remember what you were doing on 10 March 2001? I certainly don’t, but then again, I’m an expert at forgetting things when it suits me. And if Prince Andrew’s BBC interview is anything to go by, so is he. It’s one thing not remembering if there was a bar at Tramp’s, but not […]
This is Yet Another Fine Election I Cannot Vote In
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]