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Dr Tim Blakemore, a former senior law lecturer at the University of Northampton who now lives in France, argues that the UK will end up paying far more than the £39billion 'divorce bill' to leave the EU

It is hard to think of a more evocative symbol of what Emmanuel Macron is meant to stand for than Amiens.

To mark the rentrée politique – when French politicians return to work after what is now an ostentatiously short holiday – Le Figaro ran a spread designed to crush the morale of any member of the French political class preparing to confront the challenges of the year ahead.

Extreme nationalism is the flavour of the decade and has disturbing parallels with history as we approach the centenary of the end of World War One.

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My latest bill from Orange includes a €69 charge for a visit by a technician – yet I saw no-one! I had reported a fault on my line and was told that if the fault was inside my property then I would be charged €69.

By the end of next year, I shall be 90.

Your report on glyphosate (Aug 2018) as a pesticide found in honey is inaccurate and alarmist and adds to the public perception that any chemical involved in food production is detrimental to human health which Greenpeace will quite happily promote.

Everyone, it seems, enthuses about French food – see any issue of The Connexion, for example! But what does the phrase “French food” actually mean?

SNCF and air traffic controllers strike at will with government seemingly unable to prevent chaos despite only 8% of employees belonging to unions.