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For decades, the French considered it taboo to question whether immigration and foreign influences were diluting France’s social and cultural character. Indeed, the topic was considered so toxic that no one in France besides extreme-right leader...
Oct 22 2009
The Reform Act of 1832 swept away dozens of Britain’s “rotten boroughs”, where comfortable sinecures were left in the hands of a tiny number of voters. The 2009 Lisbon treaty will give an electorate of 27 the power to choose the president of...
Oct 9 2009
Some of Claire Vincent’s colleagues at France Telecom keep a box of anti-depressants on their desks, out in the open. “When things get too much you just pop one,” she said. Vincent, who is 50, and has been with France Telecom for 27...
Sep 21 2009
It has been billed as France’s political trial of the decade, a saga worthy of the darkest spy thriller that threatens to expose poisonous machinations and backstabbing at the highest reaches of the French state. Tomorrow morning, in the...
Aug 26 2009
France’s anything-but-red baron, Philippe de Villiers, has described President Nicolas Sarkozy as an “impostor”, “a liar” and a “Duracell bunny”. That was in the distant, political past – a couple of months...
Aug 8 2009
Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policy-makers...
May 30 2009
It happened in Baku, transforming the capital of Azerbaijan into a battleground in a global shadow war. Police intercepted a fleeing car and captured two suspected Hezbollah militants from Lebanon. The car contained explosives, binoculars, cameras,...
May 2 2008
Well here’s an interesting one. French iPhone blog iPhon.fr got these pics from an anonymous and unverified source, and while there’s no way of telling if the shots are legit, they certainly have a truthy ring to them. They follow what we...
Apr 15 2008
A DOCTOR running hospitals in Cambodia said today he had refused a donation raised by selling a picture of France’s first lady in the nude, because Cambodians disapproved of exploiting female flesh for money.
Apr 3 2008
RECORD label Sony BMG, one of the most vocal and ferocious opponents of music piracy, has been accused of using unlawfully installed programs on its computers by a small software company. French company PointDev, which makes applications for Microsoft...