Despite the best work of marketing departments, culture has yet to become a lifestyle choice. It’s still not one of life’s “bonus features” we’re meant to opt into it. Rather, it grows organically around us but also from us. Gandhi called it that which “resides in the heart and in the soul of its people” but to that, we might add that it inhabits those objects in which we find a shared satisfaction.
Michel Barnier as France’s PM: are they having us on?
Brits who view the appointment of Barnier as a wind-up are flattering themselves. The present crisis is all about France.