I was completely gobsmacked by French bureaucracy when I went there as a post-grad student in the 1970s, especially in contrast to my experience at Oxford where you turned up at the college, gave you… (View Post)

Like Americans, Australians or Mongolians, UK citizens will be able to apply to retire to France, if they have the means and can get the necessary permission from the French bureaucrats, having '… (View Post)

Ah yes, I'd forgotten that one. That was quite a meme at one point. Long forgotten now of course, as the loons move on to the next fantasy or post-hoc rationalisation contradicting everything or… (View Post)

https://twitter.com/jonworth/status/1333493934023192579 (View Post)

The mistake Labour are making on Brexit is that they are not laying into the sheer mind-boggling incompetence of the negotiations and preparations (or lack thereof) with sufficient vigour. Instead th… (View Post)