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Walter Ellis is a journalist and commentator based in France.
Saturday, 14 September 2019
Much of the talk that surrounds Brexit these days focuses on the process. Couldn’t it have been easier, just like …
Continue reading "Weekend Essay – Was Britain’s decision to Brexit a good idea?"
By Walter Ellis
Monday, 9 September 2019
Ireland, it used to be said, was not only a Catholic country, but a nation whose people were overwhelmingly of …
Continue reading "Ireland is changing"
By Walter Ellis
Monday, 2 September 2019
In the beginning was the word, and the word was No. On Saturday, the last day of the Northern Ireland …
Continue reading "Loyalists in Northern Ireland losing faith in England as Brexit looms"
By Walter Ellis
Wednesday, 28 August 2019
Nothing is more important to whoever happens to occupy the office of President in the Élysée Palace than the perception, …
Continue reading "As autumn approaches, Macron has a new spring in his step"
By Walter Ellis
Friday, 16 August 2019
We are not yet at the end of the Silly Season in France, what the media (though no one in …
Continue reading "Bored French reduced to reading Nicolas Sarkozy’s latest potboiler"
By Walter Ellis
Monday, 12 August 2019
Playboys. Remember them? When I was growing up, playboys were glamorous figures. You could never hope to meet them, but …
Continue reading "The era of the playboy is coming to an end, thank goodness"
By Walter Ellis
Wednesday, 7 August 2019
The following is an exclusively obtained transcript of the summing-up by the QC for the respondents in the case Regina …
Continue reading "Rumpole of the Berlaymont"
By Walter Ellis
Tuesday, 6 August 2019
The evidence is in. Tourism in Europe is eating itself. The combination of cheap airfares, Airbnb and motorised caravans means …
Continue reading "Tourism in Europe is eating itself"
By Walter Ellis
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
The time has come,” the walrus said, “to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships – and sealing wax …
Continue reading "Will Boris get it right on trade?"
By Walter Ellis
