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John Lichfield: Dream ticket may send the rest of Europe to sleep

They will be cheering in the bars of Riga and stomping their feet in the pubs of Rotherham. Europe's dynamic duo is... Herman van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton.

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John Lichfield: The hand of Dieu – but with heads hung

Friday, 20 November 2009

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John Lichfield: What a relief to be driving in disguise

Monday, 16 November 2009

Parisians, it seems, are choosing to identify with the département of their grand-parents; or their holiday homes

John Lichfield: Sarkozy's happiness index is worth taking seriously

Sunday, 20 September 2009

Out of France: GDP tables don't tell the whole story – we need to measure our 'joie de vivre'

John Lichfield: When a kiss is not just a kiss

Monday, 14 September 2009

Paris Notebook: The bise, and the handshake, are hard-wired into the French psyche

John Lichfield: Our neighbours are now a public menace

Monday, 31 August 2009

The wild boar population of France has increased five-fold in the last 20 years

In France, healthcare is funded by a levy on wages

Even the French are starting to worry about healthcare

Thursday, 27 August 2009

John Lichfield: France has the worst health system in the world, except for all the others I've tried

John Lichfield’s France: In the land where everyone is at home in their maison secondaire

Saturday, 1 August 2009

For the French middle class, a ‘little place in the country’ is just part of life

John Lichfield: The life cycle of the Dutch teenager

Monday, 20 July 2009

Emmeloord Notebook: Teenagers chatted each other up by cycling in slow circles, without dismounting

John Lichfield: Road deaths back on political radar

Monday, 13 July 2009

Paris Notebook: I suspect that many radar traps have been switched off to increase the President's popularity rating

John Lichfield: How I became chic growing roses and parsnips

Sunday, 21 June 2009

For the first time in my life, possibly only briefly, I have reached the pinnacle of Parisian chic. The newspaper, Le Figaro, has published a list of what it calls the panoplie du snob: a catalogue of 50 things which are at the furthest cutting-edge of in-your-face trendiness amongst the wealthy, Parisian chattering classes.

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