I’ve heard of turkeys voting for Christmas but never figured that this would be a central part of French economic policy… The French government is to impose an extra tax of 3% on annual income above 500,000 euros (£440,000; $721,000). It is part of a package of measures to try to […]

The thing with being mugged by genuine muggers is they only get away with your wallet, and don’t make you say sorry. In Canada we have someone hitting the Compensation button because a stewardess didn’t speak Frog. What’s the only difference between Sprite and 7Up anyway…apart from the fact that […]

Okay, so Romanian president, Traian Basescu, isn’t really showing Sarkozy his George Galloway cat impression at an EU summit yesterday. The question remains though; is Sarkozy standing on a box here, or is Basescu really the world’s baldest bonsai politician?

Last Friday was the 70th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle’s famous 1940 “Appeal of June 18” from London calling on the French to resist the German occupation of their country. An excellent occasion for a party to celebrate that France is (currently) unoccupied and free, ce n’est pas?  Except […]

It seems that France’s Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand, nephew of former President Francois Mitterand, is in a spot of hot water. Four years ago he wrote about paying for sex with young boys in Thailand – an admission which went largely unremarked at the time. However his recent defence of […]

I touched on this story the other day but didn’t realise that it was an American company’s premises that French workers were threatening to blow up IF they didn’t get better redundancy terms. I’ve heard of a Glasgow kiss as an act of brutality but now it looks like la […]

Zut alors! Did you read that French workers are barricaded inside their bankrupt car parts factory after threatening to blow the plant up with gas canisters unless they receive a bigger pay-off. “Are we capable of blowing up the factory?” asked CGT unionofficial Guy Eyermann during a meeting of about […]