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The French elections

Michel de Vacri I’m no Macron fan. He has no political experience, formed his own party En Marche, and therefore no affiliation, no representation in the Assemblee Nationale. This was an election for the traditional right to win and surely would have done so had Fillon stood down after the [...]

April 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Something turns up

Just occasionally one learns of some archaeological dig in an unlikely location that turns up something really exciting and may broaden the world’s understanding of the progress of human civilisation to the modern era. Here’s one that I spotted on the website of The Guardian today [...]

April 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Reaching for the button …

It’s good to know that, contrary to popular belief, the UK Government has long been planning for all contingencies arising from geo-political developments such as a Russian invasion or a Brexit. Here’s a report by Adam Lusher on how Mrs May and her Cabinet might be able to resolve not [...]

April 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Nice times

Michel de Vacri It’s been such fun to see our friends from the Rust here. Yesterday I took time out to watch France play a friendly against Spain which we lost 2-0. The game was noticeable for the use of video evidence which resulted in the referee disallowing a Griezmann goal and allowing a [...]

March 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

The French Presidential election

It looks very likely that the two front runners Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will emerge as victors in the first round on April 23rd. In the polls Macron is one point ahead of Le Pen but has a considerable lead in the final round of a two way shoot out in May. Macron has arrived by default as [...]

March 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Coming to terms with the past

My first father-in-law had an abiding hatred of the Japanese borne of his WW2 experiences. It was perhaps understandable. He has signed up at its outset, got shipped out to bolster the defence of Singapore about a fortnight before the British surrender and spent the rest of the War as a Japanese [...]

March 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Bob’s birthday and Cote d’Art

One of the things I most enjoy about the Cote d’Azur is the public art or to put it differently the U.K. suffers by comparison. Even in London there might be the odd public sculpture, memorial fountain or park gates usually of a poor standard. Here in Nice we noticed immediately a blue modern [...]

March 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

What can you believe these days? Anything you like …

We were having an informal editorial conference the other day over a very pleasant meal in a West End restaurant when out of the blue I aired the proposition that the Rust should declare itself a Trump-free organ, at least for a six-month trial period. Well, at least I received a polite hearing. My [...]

March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Another overnight blank

Here’s a true story. My regular night-time schedule consists of going to bed about 9.00pm, partly because I’m an early to bed and early to rise sort of guy. It’s also partly because I normally sleep for between four and five hours and get up again somewhere between midnight and 2.00am to [...]

March 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Brexit grumbles

Okay, let us agree that the world has gone completely mad and that we’re living in a parallel universe in the fifth dimension somewhere on the other side of the universe, inside the black hole that the Solar System was sucked into around the time that someone persuaded Prime Minister David [...]

February 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

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