Tag: France

For many students the year abroad had either been one huge disappointment or a life-changing rite of passage.

"The popularity of the far-right represents a failure of moderate governance, and politicians need to take responsibility for that by charting a new path forward"

"To say that the French left has a political unity problem would be an understatement."

"I did of course also have to grab a baguette to-go, a trip to a boulangerie feels worthless otherwise."

The beginning of a cure must be the restoration of those democratic habits and practices that had served us well

The other main course we had was one of the true showstoppers and undoubtedly one of my favourite dishes of the year so far.

In the second quarter, Victor finds himself double marked, he goes up for a three and finds Bandja Sy with a pass instead.

ames was particularly agitated today. Since the release of his little book – or, at least, that’s what she liked to call it, because, as she kept reminding him, it had first come out in The Little Review – he had been stuck short of a cliff edge that was giving him lip and making it awfully difficult to climb back to the height he had been at before.

"When faced with unity or annihilation, it is time to put aside minor differences, and think about ultimate aims – if not for ourselves, then for those who will suffer under the opponent’s policies."

450 miles south of Paris and the same distance across the Mediterranean from Algiers, a mere afternoon’s drive to the Spanish and Italian borders,...

Libby Bull describes how her travels to Paris went "off the rails"!

At the end of November, returning to the UK on my way back from the first part of my year abroad, I passed through...

Tucked away in the France’s Département Nord, the Musée Matisse might seem rather at odds with its provincial surroundings.

Tariq Ramadan, Oxford Professor of Contemporary Islam, is facing fresh accusations of sexual assault.  A woman, as yet unnamed, came forward and gave a report...