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...France’s Cac 40 added 0.5 per cent, while Germany’s Dax rose 0.7 per cent. Asian markets rose even though China’s exports and imports both shrank faster than expected in June....
...Christopher Caldwell argues that although the Democrats now control the US House of Representatives after the midterm elections, they should be wary of testing voters' patience by launching impeachment proceedings...
...wanted to threaten Saddam with chemical weapons CIA boss warned UK against development of Concorde Thatcher’s officials sought to cover up toxic economic rivalry UK considered nuclear defence deal with France...
...Christopher Caldwell, a senior editor at the Weekly Standard, is at work on a book about the rise and fall of the post-1960s political order Collage by Sarah Hanson Photographs: Getty; Rex Features...
...In France, authority over the ailing person’s fate is more ambiguous....
...Of the big influences shaping France, fewer are coming from France itself. The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard...
...France is going to need a better way to distinguish between the two....
...Those who have ostentatiously stayed away – the UK’s David Cameron, Barack Obama of the US and France’s François Hollande – are following what the critic Harold Rosenberg once called “the herd of independent...
...The book arrives exactly 10 years after La France qui tombe (“Falling France”), Mr Baverez’s bestselling polemic, which made similar warnings....
...But he also suspected that “the future of hatred lies in their camp, and not in that of the followers of Vichy France”....
What the public cares about is not politics, but seeing its nation’s athletes compete
...It may not be everybody’s cup of tea – although the speed with which trick or treating has spread to France, Britain, Ireland and elsewhere indicates people like it a great deal....
...Or, assuming Mr Hollande is serious about honouring France’s pre-revolutionary past, Solitude before Joan of Arc, France’s patron saint and national heroine? For some, that is not the point....
...Sir, I sympathise with Christopher Caldwell’s general aversion to prior restraint of speech, even hate speech, as does French law (“France blurs the line between comedy and crime,” Comment, January 11)....
...Sir, Christopher Caldwell views the French effort to constrain Dieudonné M’bala M’bala’s exercise of “free speech” through a myopic American lens (“France blurs the line between comedy and crime,” Comment...
...Legalising abortion in the 1970s did not leave lasting scars on France, as it did on the US. France does not punish politicians for extramarital dalliances....
...Mary-Louise Kearney, Paris, France...
...Perhaps the blunders the French made on the way from Minitel to the information economy have led anglophone publishers to tune France out when it comes to technology....
...Similarly, the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Grand Robert dictionary in France abandoned books for computerisation even while their quality was still high. (Both are going digital concerns.)...
...Sir, In “Academic boycotts are all about the boycotters” (Comment, December 21), Christopher Caldwell, correctly, does not rule out anti-Semitism as the basis for the boycott....
In an age of debt, indifference over where a country’s residents come from is not reasonable
...Jérôme Cahuzac, France’s budget minister, was introduced to the voting public last February in a strange way....
...Stricken with cancer of the testicles, lungs and brain in 1996, aged 25, he recovered to win seven Tours de France....
...All that said, Prof Manfra is right to question Mr Caldwell’s claim that immigrants and Italian culture do not mix....
....”, May 25) on English language influence in France, was nicely complemented by Christopher Caldwell’s article (“An octogenarian’s manifesto for the language of youth”, May 25) in which he quotes philosopher...
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