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Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG - Oct 2, 2008
This might be an exercise in what the French call "shooting at the ambulance", or kicking someone when they are down. But here's a look at the French reaction to Sarah Palin. Like the Gallic adoration of Barack Obama …
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Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG - Oct 1, 2008
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Britain's ambassador in Kabul, has a reputation for holding strong views and making them heard. He may not, however, have wanted his views on the state of the allied effort in Afghanistan to …
Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG - Sep 22, 2008
How do you run a military campaign in the age of cell phones, the internet and media emotion ? The difficulty of doing so is being illustrated in France as the Parliament votes today on the continuing deployment of …
Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG - Sep 16, 2008
For once Nicolas Sarkozy had some good news to announce this morning -- the release by French naval commandos of two hostages who had been held aboard their yacht off Somalia for the past two weeks (story here). Sarko …
Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG - Sep 14, 2008
The French government has just invented another good reason to use china, glasses and cutlery when you eat outdoors. It's going to put a substantial tax on cardboard plates and plastic bags, glasses and eating …
Also tagged: politics, europe, france, paris, the economy, life style, food and cuisine
Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG - Sep 12, 2008
A priest in full soutane overtook me this morning. He was pedalling furiously on a Vélib, one of the Paris self-service bicycles. It was a sign of the day's big event -- the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI on a...
Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG - Sep 9, 2008
This is a small gripe about how lightly our leaders spend money -- and other people's time. I have just spent a pointless nine hours on trains plus an unnecessary night in a hotel because Nicolas Sarkozy decided at …
Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 29, 2008
Paris is missing its Americans. Visitors from the United States stayed 20 percent fewer nights in the French capital in the first six months of the year. It's nothing personal says the Tourist Office. The high euro and …
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Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 29, 2008
Paris is missing its Americans. Visitors from the United States stayed 20 percent fewer nights in the French capital in the first six months of the year. It's nothing personal says the Tourist Office. The high euro and …
Also tagged: politics, europe, france, russia, the economy, life style
Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 25, 2008
France began the new year today. The children don't go back to school until September 1, but for most others, the last Monday in August is la rentrée. The summer is almost over, the government is back and the big...
Also tagged: politics, europe, france, internet, paris, the economy