I agree. French property purchases are very smooth processes. Notaries can be annoying in other ways: ours is slow to respond to emails (we have needed her for various ownership related issues recent… (View Post)

It was a glorious time. We didn’t realise how unnaturally, and artificially, lucky a time it was. All the way up until 11 September 2001. What followed was 24 years (and counting) of disaster after d… (View Post)

Isn’t that everyone’s job? Mine is predominantly “dial into Teams meetings”. (View Post)

My guess is that Starmer was already planning his first big reshuffle and this event precipitated it a bit earlier than planned. (View Post)

A rare good political week for the Tories, though Kemi’s not fully capitalised. (View Post)