"The holiday the monarchy can't spoil". (View Post)

Wasn't there a much more genuine holding of the bankers to account in the end there, though ? Also a much more genuine national effort to recover across society, "all in it together", … (View Post)

The end of a postwar era in France too with the passing of Jean-Luc Godard, He was a kind of emblem of postwar French culture. Some genuinely interesting films amongst the fluff, which will be miseed… (View Post)

What a strangely successful country Iceland is. It seems to have received the best of a combined Anglo-American and Scandinavian, more Continental influence. We could learn a bit from that. (View Post)

That's extraordinary, because I was actually there too, going to a wedding in Paris. (View Post)