John Lichfield
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: 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
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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