Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Thursday, October 22, 2026

Le Beaujolais Nouveau est disparu

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The arrival of Beaujolais Nouveau was a thing, a big thing, in the Britain of the 1980s, with the media taking a huge interest. But then we ...
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Friday, September 04, 2026

John Rogers takes us on a fantastic stroll around South Kensington

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John shows us Exhibition Road, the French district of Kensington and Benny Hill's blue plaque.
Monday, June 29, 2026

The Joy of Six 1540

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"I am speaking out today because many more asylum-seeking children are at risk due to plans to withdraw support and forcibly remove chi...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

The Joy of Six 1524

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"You will know them. They are in every policy working group, every conference fringe, every strategy call. They are the people who hear...
Saturday, May 02, 2026

The Joy of Six 1512

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Chris Dillow lays bare the stupidity of Westminster politics: "If your final shortlist for a job comprises Mandelson, George Osborne (...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Cuckoo takes one look at UK and flees to France

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Things are worse than the judges thought. Our Headline of the Day Award goes to the Suffolk pages of BBC News .
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

The Joy of Six 1504

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"To everyone's surprise, Orbán conceded early – before 9.30pm – and cheers erupted from all corners of Budapest’s centre. One small...
Saturday, April 11, 2026

The Joy of Six 1502

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"As need has grown and reform and resources have stalled, 1.9 million people in England alone provided a 'full-time' (defined a...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

The Joy of Six 1474

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Jessica Valenti sounds the alarm about the Heritage Foundation's plan for American women: "Like the conservative movement more bro...
Monday, February 09, 2026

Nouvelle Vague – The blog post does not describe the film: the film bends towards the blog post

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I saw Nouvelle Vague at the Phoenix in Leicester this afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed it. The film tells the story of the shooting of Jean-...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Ed Davey: Donald Trump is behaving like an international gangster and Starmer’s Mr Nice Guy diplomacy has failed

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It's easy for politicians in opposition to talk tough, but Mark Carney and Emmanuel Macron have proved that you can do it while leading ...
Saturday, January 03, 2026

Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd

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I posted a video of the South Bank Show film on the staging of Sweeney Todd a few days ago and have been obsessed with Stephen Sondheim'...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

The Joy of Six 1455

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"By restricting jury trials, removing protest rights and expanding surveillance, Labour is entrenching an authoritarian legal infrastru...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

The Shropshire ley line quest reaches All Saints', Worthen, and the story of Mary Anne Talbot

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More ley line adventures in Shropshire with Third Rate Content. This time they're at All Saints', Worthen and, though they don't...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

The Orange Bicycle: Hyacinth Threads

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Orange Bicycle, under various names, followed the well-worn path from skiffle to psychedelia in the Sixties. As Robb Storme and the Whispers...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

The Joy of Six 1346

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"The miscarriages of justice are extraordinary. One victim is a gay make-up artist with no apparent gang affiliations, just some tattoo...
Friday, December 20, 2024

The comforting lie de Gaulle told France after the second world war

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This blog's hero Neal Ascherson has a piece in the new London Review of Books. It's a review of Julian Jackson's France on Tria...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

The Joy of Six 1269

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"Labour’s recent creative industries plan, published in March, avoids any talk about new horizons or radical change, either in the coun...
Thursday, August 01, 2024

Le Grand Meaulnes and the urban legend of the disappearing diner

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The latest Boggart and Banshee podcast touches on those stories about vanishing restaurants.  You may know how they go. A family travelling...
Sunday, June 16, 2024

Eric Cantona spotted walking goat outside old school Bermondsey boozer

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Thanks to a nomination from an eagle-eyed reader, Southwark News wins our Headline of the Day Award. The judges were unanimous in their opi...