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		<title>How to win a French election</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poor old President Sarkozy isn&#8217;t doing so well in the polls at the moment and it is possible he will lose the forthcoming Presidential elections. Given that the other candidates don&#8217;t seem ideal to me I thought I would offer some handy hints to anyone else thinking of standing: 1) Promise to create 200 000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like naughty children at Christmas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How I miss the pleasures of having small children around at Christmas &#8211; the squabbling and bickering, one taunting the other, the other making rude gestures&#8230; So in the absence of small children I have taken to watching the news instead, to see the latest instalment in the childish behaviour of French and British politicians. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More of a hindrance than a help</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Running a business isn&#8217;t easy at the moment, in France or elsewhere, and everyone would welcome some good advice about how to cope with the difficult conditions. So despite having challenges of our own (don&#8217;t get me started on those) I though it would be useful if I went round to all the local French [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Voeckler for President?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because I&#8217;m a bit concerned that M Sarkozy might lose next year&#8217;s presidential elections I consider it my personal challenge to help France select a replacement with more &#8216;street appeal&#8217;. A while ago I suggested that Christine Lagarde would be a great choice to be the next president of France. Unfortunately she then promptly showed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job vacancy &#8211; expats need not apply</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 15:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I understand that a rather senior position has just become available in France as Presidential Candidate for the Socialist party in next years elections. Apparently Mr Strauss-Khan, the potential candidate, is likely to be otherwise occupied scratching his initials on a cell wall at Rikers Island after allegedly misbehaving in a New York hotel room. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At last, something to celebrate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope readers are appreciative of my recent efforts to include the occasional photo in entries, to brighten things up a bit&#8230; Yesterday I was amused to cycle past the above sign in a street near us &#8211; placed, so it seems, by the local farmers union &#8211; so I rushed back with the camera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French youth and work opportunities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time I have the chance to chat to the waifs and strays that follow our daughters around &#8211; a rare chance to get an insight into the views of French youth! Many of them are at the age when the real world is starting to take over from school life&#8230; The problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Run to the bank with Eric Cantona</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following an idea put forward by Eric Cantona recently the 7th December is planned to be &#8216;bank run&#8217; day. The general idea is that nowadays protesting in the street doesn&#8217;t achieve much &#8211; but if we all withdraw our money from the banks at the same time the banks will collapse. Whatever we might think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strikes and working in France</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always interested in cultural differences between English and French and how they might have come about, so I was fascinated recently to have a chat with a young French chap who has just got back from a work secondment in Germany, and was talking about the differences between work experiences in the two countries. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vive la difference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, politics is boring and I don&#8217;t know anything about it, but in a week dominated by strike action in France and the budget review in the UK I can&#8217;t ignore it completely. I think the most interesting thing about the situations in France and the UK at the moment is surely the way [...]]]></description>
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