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Grand angle - Show me the Monet

1. This painting, by famous street artist, Banksy is called, Show Me the Monet. The title is a play on ...

On parle d'eux

1.~Jeremy Corbyn The former Labour leader has just been suspended from the party he used to lead. A few weeks ...

PPE : the Oxford degree that runs Britain

1. Monday, 13 April 2015 was a typical day in modern British politics. An Oxford University graduate in philosophy, politics ...

Focus

1.~The last few miles before Brexit   Where are we now? -      The UK left the EU on 31 January, ...

Britain is becoming mad, bad and dangerous

1. The British like to think that they have a genius for defusing conflicts. France’s road to democracy lay through the ...

Dreading winter? Think like a Scandinavian.

1. This winter, indoor dining, bars, movie theaters and many other indoor gatherings are likely to be ill-advised, if not ...

Coventry: from ghost town to city of culture

1. In 1981 the Specials mourned that as post-industrial demise gripped Coventry it was becoming “like a ghost town” where ...

Sur le vif

1.~Happy Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is held on the fourth Thursday of November – which fell on the 26th this year. Families ...

À 360°

1.~HOLLANDE Feeling depressed? Hug a cow. “Koe knuffelen,” which translates as “cow hugging” is a new wellness trends in the ...

How the American economy did under Donald Trump

1. In his new book Casey Mulligan offers an intriguing explanation for why President Donald Trump makes outlandish economic claims. Mr ...

The cola wars made Pepsi and Coke “the world’s best marketers”

1. “ROCK AND ROLLER cola wars, I can’t take it any more!” cried Billy Joel in his chart-topping song from ...

Zoom sur Nanaia Mahuta

1.~Political career Born in 1970, Nanaia Mahuta is a famous figure in New Zealand politics. She has been the Minister ...

Among Us: the ultimate party game of the Covid era

1. There are 10 crew members trapped on a spacecraft, carrying out menial tasks to maintain vital systems, but at ...

The best teen movies based on classic literature

1. If the teen movies of the 1980s were defined by John Hughes, those of the 1990s were best known ...

Les échos

1.~Iconic lego album 17 year old Kekoa Robot has found a new hobby to entertain himself during the pandemic: recreating ...

What did the Vikings look like?

1. They may be depicted in film and TV as a fair-haired rabble of slaughter-hungry Scandinavians, but the Vikings may ...

How to stay focused

1. The average person’s mind wanders 47% of the time, according to a 2010 Harvard University study, so nearly half ...

Le dessin

1.~Biden's election In this cartoon, Joe Biden is represented as a Frankenstein-like creature with each of his limbs made out ...