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Walter Ellis is a journalist and commentator based in France.
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
There are two abiding clichés about the French on holiday. The first is that they all set off and return …
Continue reading "It’s Le Grand Départ as French do what they always do – speed for the coast"
By Walter Ellis
Friday, 7 August 2020
Just days after the massive explosion in Beirut that destroyed the port and killed at least 150 people, President Emmanuel …
Continue reading "Does France risk being drawn back into the cauldron of Lebanon?"
By Walter Ellis
Tuesday, 4 August 2020
If you think that Dominic Cummings’s moonlight flit to Durham was a scandal, consider how you would have felt if …
Continue reading "Macron displaying resilience as he embraces his inner conservatism"
By Walter Ellis
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
My wife and I used to watch “Suits”, the New York-based legal drama that established Meghan Markle as a B-list …
Continue reading "Harry and Meghan are in a hole and should stop digging"
By Walter Ellis
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Like Yanis Vaurofakis, though sadly without his millionaire income, I have been liberated by the strange turns Europe has taken …
Continue reading "Europe’s Ode to Joy has become the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves"
By Walter Ellis
Saturday, 25 July 2020
If close association with the slave trade was what decided the fate of cities, Bordeaux would have to be bulldozed. …
Continue reading "Bordeaux: a jewel of France. Just don’t mention the S-word"
By Walter Ellis
Thursday, 23 July 2020
It is no secret that the lives of Hollywood actors tend not to move along normal lines. All too often, …
Continue reading "The Battered Lives of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard"
By Walter Ellis
Monday, 20 July 2020
More than half-way through his third term as Dutch prime minister and still just 53, Mark Rutte is suddenly up …
Continue reading "Europe sleepwalks into a new dawn of uncertainty"
By Walter Ellis
Friday, 17 July 2020
The European Union, like so much of the world these days, seems constantly to be staring into the abyss. Its …
Continue reading "EU leaders divide up 1.8 trillion euro bailout fund. What could go wrong?"
By Walter Ellis
