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Walter Ellis is a journalist and commentator based in France.
Saturday, 23 January 2021
It was all smiles in the end, but, Mon Dieu, they put us through the wringer first. Season 8 of …
Continue reading "Spiral season 8 review – the final autopsy"
By Walter Ellis
Friday, 22 January 2021
He’s getting rattled. President Macron today scolded the people of France for whingeing about Covid and always thinking they know …
Continue reading "Macron hits out at Covid know-alls as vaccination programme stalls"
By Walter Ellis
Thursday, 21 January 2021
One of the first things to be noted about Armin Laschet, newly elected leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) …
Continue reading "Armin Laschet: Putin’s Manchurian candidate or Germany’s next great hope?"
By Walter Ellis
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
On paper, the EU is well prepared to secure the protection of its 450 million citizens from the Covid-19 virus …
Continue reading "European unity among the latest casualties of Covid"
By Walter Ellis
Monday, 11 January 2021
What are we going to do about Northern Ireland? The province, which this year marks 100 years of existence as …
Continue reading "Brexit’s children: Irish unity moves back onto the agenda"
By Walter Ellis
Saturday, 9 January 2021
In 1990, during a trip to the United States, I took my son, then aged eight, to visit Washington DC. …
Continue reading "Weekend Essay – Keeping America safe in the age of Trump"
By Walter Ellis
Monday, 4 January 2021
The President was clear. The snail’s pace roll-out of France’s Covid vaccination programme was unjustified and could not be allowed …
Continue reading "Macron under fire from every quarter as vaccination programme stalls"
By Walter Ellis
Monday, 28 December 2020
To most people, history is what happened to them and their families and friends as far back as they can …
Continue reading "2020: A tough political year in review"
By Walter Ellis
Wednesday, 23 December 2020
Calais, like its sibling, Dover, is a hard town to love. It is ugly and workaday and entirely without pretension. …
Continue reading "Calais – a problem for 674 years"
By Walter Ellis
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