John Lichfield
John Lichfield: Europe knows it cannot go back, but can't bring itself to go forward
Until now, it has been unwise to underestimate the survival instinct of the European Union and all its works
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John Lichfield: First it was McDonald's, now it's primaries
Friday, 4 June 2010
Official France likes to boast, Asterix-like, of its resistance to Anglo-Saxon cultural incursions. No hamburgers, baseball caps, binge-drinking, obesity or football hooligans here. (The real France has passionately embraced all those marvellous things but let's not dwell on it.)
John Lichfield: Cameron's European opportunity
Thursday, 27 May 2010
The Tory leader has a historic opportunity to wean his party, and Britain, from demonology and present the EU as it really is: muddling, frustrating, but essential
John Lichfield: Another Aesop's fable
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Further delay might have meant bailouts for Portugal and Spain, with huge consequences for all of us
John Lichfield: Cereal killers and bungalows lead a Norman conquest
Monday, 12 April 2010
Normandy Notebook
John Lichfield: The deflation of President Sarkozy
Thursday, 25 March 2010
He is in a double-bind, excoriated more for his rhetoric than for his achievements
John Lichfield: Moving story of the missing 'Picasso'
Monday, 22 March 2010
Paris Notebook: He left a painting on the studio wall to thank the BBC for having been the voice of freedom in France from 1940-44
John Lichfield: A lesson, son, in crisis and paradox
Monday, 15 February 2010
Why did the banks go after the poor Greeks, Daddy? Good question ...
John Lichfield: Making a meal out of old chestnuts
Saturday, 23 January 2010
If French home cooking is dead, who uses all the food markets, butchers and fishmongers of Paris?
John Lichfield: Nothing French about fraternity
Monday, 4 January 2010
The casual rudeness which foreigners associate with the French is mostly the fault of the Parisians
John Lichfield: The First Lady and a down-and-out
Monday, 28 December 2009
In another recent TV interview, the Première Dame turned philosopher
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• Bruce Anderson: Osborne has to find the right language
While not shirking the bad news, he must persuade us it will not last forever
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Where has all the love gone?
The internet has hardly anything on the emotional truths and gifts of love
• Philip Hensher: Plus ça change for the Mr Gradgrinds
It is so depressing to learn a foreign language only because it is "useful"
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