John Lichfield

John Lichfield: The government's clumsy response has only encouraged the copycats Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 04 November 2005

After the outbreak of violence in the greater Paris area, France faces the danger of a cascade of copycat riots in deprived and racially mixed suburbs across the country.

John Lichfield: Our Man in Paris Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 09 August 2005

Read my Da Vinci book and you'll be even more lost than with the original

John Lichfield: Our Man in Dublin Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 25 July 2005

Despite predictions of gloom, there seems to be no end to Ireland's upward property spiral

John Lichfield: Our Man in Paris Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 12 July 2005

Parisian wildlife thrives on baguettes while Chirac shuns haggis for boiled calf's head

John Lichfield: Our Man in Paris Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 28 June 2005

The new slimming shop caters for Monsieur - but I couldn't fit through the door, luckily

John Lichfield: Arguments Britain can win... and those it can't Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 24 June 2005

Can the Prime Minister win his battle against the Common Agricultural Policy?

John Lichfield: Spare us your sanctimonious rubbish, Mr Blair Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 21 June 2005

Everything must be put on hold until Saint Tony slays the dragon of the Common Agricultural Policy

John Lichfield: Our Man in Paris Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 14 June 2005

The plot thickens in the curious case of Armani Man, a modern European mystery

John Lichfield: Our Man in Paris Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 31 May 2005

Piaf, Impressionists and luxury handbags: why the Japanese are saying 'Oui' to France

John Lichfield: Stupid, selfish and self-deluded... the French voters who are endangering Europe's future Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 28 May 2005

No other country in Europe, no other mainstream left , wants to call into question free markets

John Lichfield: Our man in Paris Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 17 May 2005

This is the story of a white bullock called Alain, who is the last link in an unbroken line of cattle stretching back at least 1,000 years.

John Lichfield: Our Man in Paris Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 03 May 2005

To find the path of true friendship, follow the yellow brick road. Or was that red and blue?

Our Man in Paris: Café society ain't what it was Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 19 April 2005

Each morning for eight years, I have been eating breakfast and reading the newspapers in the same café in Paris. I am now part of the drab furniture: "Monsieur John."

French cuisine? He's got it licked Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 05 April 2005

The smallest restaurant in Paris is run by an Englishman who has never learnt (officially) how to cook.

A European summit in my front room Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 22 March 2005

The other day, 60 French and German 15-year-olds danced the conga through our apartment. There's still life and energy in the European Dream. Ask our downstairs neighbours.

Let's get on board a model railway Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 08 March 2005

I recently spent 40 minutes at a small railway station in Switzerland: 40 minutes of free entertainment.

A new kind of Norman conquest Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 22 February 2005

On the edge of the forest, a couple of kilometres from our little Norman house, there is a lonely crossroads. If you pause, on foot or in a car, you gaze over ridge after ridge of green hills and woodlands.

Every Frenchman loves a strip show Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 08 February 2005

An exhibition in Paris is pulling in the crowds. It's dedicated to a man hailed as "another Charlie Chaplin, or Jacques Tati", one of the "giants of humour of the 20th century". His name is André Franquin. Mean nothing? What about his most famous creations - Gaston Lagaffe, Marsupilami - do they still mean nothing to you?

Just don't go down to the woods today Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 25 January 2005

The weather in Normandy has been absurdly mild and bright.

Is Gérard a man of too many parts? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 11 January 2005

In France, you can run from Gérard Depardieu, screaming, but you cannot hide.

Sacrebleu! C'est le quiz de Noël Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 28 December 2004

By popular demand (one postcard and an e-mail), the quiz de Noël is back. You score un point for every correct answer.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité, dictée... Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 14 December 2004

To be dictated to by one's children is the fate of most parents. The other night, I asked my 14-year-old son Charles to read out two moderately complicated texts in French.

Adieu to the pompous patricians of France Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 01 December 2004

France needs someone younger, more direct, someone who wants to do something

The little monsters are overtaking Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 30 November 2004

Anyone who has driven in rural France will recognise the following maddening experience.

They may not be the best of friends, but Blair and Chirac need each other Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 18 November 2004

Chirac knows that an influential Europe cannot exist without Britain and its special connection to the US
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