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Once upon a time, for ages, I believed that Greece was eternal. Today, I'm not so sure. Ever since I left Australia in 1962, I...

If you happened to be calling upon the French version of Google yesterday, their delightful doodle would have informed you that some kind of...

This is a recent specimen of a red Cournouze photo (untouched by Photoshop in any way whatsoever), taken from my bathroom window: [Clic...

A couple of months ago, in my blog post titled Ring-ins [ display ], I evoked the existence of a significant number of out-of-wedlock birth...

When he started to talk surprisingly about a conspiracy theory, Dominique Strauss-Kahn went fishing, for reasons that were not apparent. We...

Last night, in the excitement of publishing my article about our patriach Bertram de Verdun , I forgot to include a vital element of data: n...

Throughout the coming week, we can expect some spectacular fireworks (akin to the final five minutes in a yet-undecided rugby match) as Nico...

The brilliant French literary critic and former TV personality Bernard Pivot has just written a delightful tweet (which I've transl...

Ever since I started to investigate my paternal Skyvington genealogy, back in 1981, I've been obsessed by an obvious question: Would I...

Tiramisu is a great Italian invention. To make this tasty dessert, you need little more than a 250 gram packet of mascarpone cheese, a few...

Like thousands of other bird-lovers throughout the world, I've been spending a lot of time, over the last few days, watching the couple ...

I'm thrilled to discover that all the 22 rose bushes and the 9 peonies that I planted back in 2009 have survived the harsh winter. There...

Grass is great for cows, but donkeys prefer by far the fresh leaves and delicate blossoms of plum trees. A tempest has been blowing at...

Owls are fascinating creatures. We hear them at night, and we know they're not far away. But we hardly ever see them. In fact, they are ...

There's real poetry in the real world Science is the poetry of reality — Richard Dawkins

Click here to see this final word—of a rather personal nature—that François Hollande offers his supporters on the eve of the first rou...

I love this photo, taken a year ago, which reveals the obvious sympathy, if not complicity, between the Socialist presidential candidate Fra...

I would imagine that most people have heard, by now, of the English intellectual Richard Dawkins . But it's unlikely that they...

Three months ago, I wrote a blog article titled In the early hours of an Australian Morning [ display ] about a fatal accident in which two...

To my mind, the ancient Greek concept of democracy is a useful but silly nicety. If we observe the tragic events of the 20th century, the th...