Thursday, May 24th 2012
Sometimes a team needs a leader, to take a game into their hands and turn it around. For France, Henry was that man. A disorganised and unmotivated French side were harried and fraught by an under-valued Irish team, but extra time put the win up for grabs – and it was the French who reached [...]
When newly elected French president Nicolas Sarkozy named Bernard Kouchner Minister for Foreign Affairs in May 2007 there were few eyebrows raised. It had been an open secret in French political circles for weeks beforehand and it later transpired that Sarkozy had offered Kouchner the job before the election – an election during which Kouchner [...]
After they read my objective and accurate description of France last week on this very site, the French Tourist Board was being so impressed that they invite me to come to their country’s capital, Paris, to see for myself how much efforts they have been making in the past seven days in order to improve [...]
The most striking thing about Alain Badiou’s The Meaning of Sarkozy is how little it is about Nicolas Sarkozy. This will disappoint those who are expecting a savage evisceration of the personality of the little man in the Élysée Palace. I suspect that Badiou saw a canny way of sneaking his call for an embrace [...]
Si. Is the Future King of Lyon!
I am watching with disgust and pleasure the vaguely general striking in France yesterday. Did you see it? Was all most very amusing and also a big disgrace.
In general, as you know, I am always opposed to the insurrectioning by members of the lower classes, such [...]
Another year at the movies and another good one. Too often we hear jeremiads about the decline of cinema and the lack of good films out there (of course, such gripes are usually based on a diet of English-language cinema, which is far from being the world’s most interesting at the best of times). But [...]
Being the third and final part of a dérive through Dublin with a map of Paris.
Place Pigalle: Vibrant, albeit a little rundown, Pigalle tends to attract large groups of Americans, and, as a result, there is a great deal of anti-American feeling among the residents and artists. Much of the artwork was, frankly, disappointing: Most [...]
Being the second part of a dérive through Dublin with a map of Paris.
Rue Gay Lussac: “Marxism is the opiate of the intellectuals.” “All Power to the Dromedariat!” “Under the Paving Stones, the Metro!” These are just a few of the slogans that adorned the walls of Paris during The Events of 1968. They were [...]
The first event in the calendar of the Dublin Psychogeographical Society took place last Friday, a challenging, insightful, and fun day out for all concerned. I met at the Omphalos of Irish society, Holles Street hospital, at 11 a.m., armed only with a Tupperware box filled with tuna sandwiches, a hip flask of Black Bush [...]
