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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More spurious explanations and justifications for Brexit, this time from the American economist Michael Ivanovitch writing for CNBC in the UnitedContinue Reading
Speaking of matters on the far-right, over the last couple of years the so-called Identitarian movement in Europe has provenContinue Reading
I’ve discussed my interest in the late 19th century French writer and illustrator, Albert Robida, in a number of previousContinue Reading
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
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
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
A bleak headline from a story in the Irish Independent, reporting the words of the Fine Gael minister of justice, FrancesContinue Reading
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
Today’s Irish Times newspaper carries a deeply offensive article examining the period of 1939-45 in France and what the authorContinue Reading
The National Review Online, the web-version of the right-wing American current affairs magazine, has published a series of “leaked” emailsContinue Reading
Like many other people around the world I have been shocked by the events that have taken placeContinue Reading
In 1941 the Vichy regime in France ordered the partition of the north-western Celtic nation of Brittany as part ofContinue Reading
Paddy Ashdown is a former British marine commando and intelligence officer with MI5, the ex-leader of the Liberal-Democrat party (whichContinue Reading
Since the 1940s when the fascist government based in southern France partitioned Brittany into two separate administrative regions with theContinue Reading
This article on the resilience of the indigenous language of the historic Basque nation in north-eastern Spain and neighbouring France isContinue Reading
Il était une fois… or “Once Upon a Time…” is an ongoing animated series produced by the multi-talented FrenchContinue Reading
Once again the political establishment in France has shown its opposition to any recognition of the cultural rights of theContinue Reading
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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This is terrible news that comes on top of previous acts of cultural terrorism carried out by extreme ideologues inContinue Reading
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
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