View from Across La Manche

New Orleans comes to the Perigord. Not to put too fine a point on things, it has been warm. We haven’t had any wildfires or any of the intense heat other parts of Europe have had […]

Please don’t let me be misunderstood. This time around I find myself thinking about inclusivity and its importance in any society. As an immigrant, you inevitably wonder just how well you fit into your adopted society. […]

The time has come, the correspondent said, to talk of many things, Of Kings and cops and long road hops, while Americana sings… (with heartfelt apologies to Lewis Carroll) I was originally going to write at […]

A rose by any other name… When we moved to France, back in December of 2020, I had a bit of schoolboy French and that was it; just enough to, sort of, get by in a […]

There’s a riot going on… It’s been a very lively month here, politically. As I’m sure most people know, Emmanuel Macron survived two No Confidence votes on the evening of March 20th, after he forced his […]