Brexit Fruitloops: The American And French Edition
More spurious explanations and justifications for Brexit, this time from the American economist Michael Ivanovitch writing for CNBC in the UnitedContinue Reading
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Alt-Right Generation Identity Brings Supervillain Kitsch To Its Defend Europe Mission In The Alps
Speaking of matters on the far-right, over the last couple of years the so-called Identitarian movement in Europe has provenContinue Reading
Le Vingtième Siècle. La Vie Électrique By Albert Robida
I’ve discussed my interest in the late 19th century French writer and illustrator, Albert Robida, in a number of previousContinue Reading
Views On The Thick Micks From The Colonial Brits
So you’re browsing through the website of a mainstream national newspaper in Ireland and you unexpectedly stumble upon an article indulging the noxiousContinue Reading
Progressive Nationalists Make Gains In Corsica
While the vast majority of the foreign press has focused on the unexpected failure of Marine Le Pen’s right-wing Front National toContinue Reading
British Airstrikes In Syria, Action Without Purpose
Two bravura opinion pieces from the Celtic world protesting the bellicosity of Greater England’s morally bankrupt political classes and their determination to condemnContinue Reading
Irish Neutrality Versus The Anti-Islamist Armchair Generals
A bleak headline from a story in the Irish Independent, reporting the words of the Fine Gael minister of justice, FrancesContinue Reading
1916 Is Over And The Good Guys Won
Every year, on the 11th of November, hundreds of far right and neo-fascist campaigners in France, including the former leader of the Front national,Continue Reading
Condemning Rebellion In Occupied France And Ireland
Today’s Irish Times newspaper carries a deeply offensive article examining the period of 1939-45 in France and what the authorContinue Reading
Those Leaked Al Jazeera Emails On Charlie Hebdo
The National Review Online, the web-version of the right-wing American current affairs magazine, has published a series of “leaked” emailsContinue Reading
Je Suis Charlie
Like many other people around the world I have been shocked by the events that have taken placeContinue Reading
In Support Of A Reunited Brittany
In 1941 the Vichy regime in France ordered the partition of the north-western Celtic nation of Brittany as part ofContinue Reading
Paddy Ashdown, IRA Volunteer
Paddy Ashdown is a former British marine commando and intelligence officer with MI5, the ex-leader of the Liberal-Democrat party (whichContinue Reading
Support The Reunification Of Brittany!
Since the 1940s when the fascist government based in southern France partitioned Brittany into two separate administrative regions with theContinue Reading
Some Basque Lessons
This article on the resilience of the indigenous language of the historic Basque nation in north-eastern Spain and neighbouring France isContinue Reading
Cultus Obscuram, Once Upon A Time… Space
Il était une fois… or “Once Upon a Time…” is an ongoing animated series produced by the multi-talented FrenchContinue Reading
France Says No – Again!
Once again the political establishment in France has shown its opposition to any recognition of the cultural rights of theContinue Reading
Albert Robida, Fantastic Futurist
The artist Albert Robida is one of my favourite writer-illustrators from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, not leastContinue Reading
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Cultural Terrorism In Timbuktu
This is terrible news that comes on top of previous acts of cultural terrorism carried out by extreme ideologues inContinue Reading
The French Elections 2012 – The Breton Connection
The Agence Bretagne Presse carries the results of the first round of votes to the French parliament from Brittany (in French, of course). NationalistContinue Reading
No Peace For The Basque Country
Just a quick post to note the strange events in the Basque Country, both Spanish- and French-ruled, where despite the declared cessation of operations byContinue Reading
