In case you hadn’t noticed, Angela Merkel hasn’t been to visit Trump in the White House yet, although it is said she has an open invitation. She probably won’t meet him face to face until […]
So what’s happened? This morning I came into work only to hear reports that Francois Fillon’s campaign manager, Patrick Stefanini, had handed in his resignation. The BBC reported it; the primary source for which was the […]
I’m a sucker for the violin; always have been, always will be. I am listening to it now in fact: the John Williams soundtrack to Schindler’s List. It’s quite frankly one of the most moving […]
On Monday, Germany’s new SPD leader Martin Schulz gave a speech in Bielefeld, Germany. It’s one of Germany’s 20 biggest towns; south-west of Hanover and on the German map is located over to the left, […]
This will be an ongoing post that I will add to as I continue to read about German politics. I have not selected Angela Merkel as she is widely known and I have done a […]
En route to work the other day after dropping my son off at school, I was listening in the car to the Today program on Radio 4. Speaking on the program were BBC documentary maker Michael Cockerell and […]
The following has been obtained from a source in European Economics but their figures are based on the Ipsos-Sopra poll, for which I have provided a link below. Note that ‘voting intention’ is the way in which […]
This morning I was reading in the FT an article about the inevitable complexities of leaving the EU. I am sure you have read many. The European Parliament’s chief Brexit negotiator, Guy Verhofstadt, has said […]
Above image, in order from the left: Marine Le Pen, Francois Fillon, Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Luc Melenchon, Benoit Hamon. According to the FT today (print version today, online version 16.2.17), Marine Le Pen is predicted to […]
Ok, so not Finnegan but Flynn; Trump’s national security adviser (or at least he used to be). Why is he all over the news? On Monday evening, Michael Flynn was fired by Trump (or resigned, […]
