German authorities taking no chances ahead of the final #EURO2024

Another first class article by The Local France John Lichfield. Without doubt one of the best anglophone analysts of current French Politics. Always worth a read.

Bloody hell. Me and Victor Hugo have more than one thing in common! Aswell as being decent writers we are both big fans of the breathtaking Cirque de Gavarnie in the Pyrennees. I just discovered this World Heritage site today. Big Vic called it the "Colosseum of Nature". Spot on

What a truly revolting thing to say…..

The Olympic torch has just passed by The Local's offices on the Bassin de la Villette on the way to the opening ceremony this evening. It's stopped raining too...! And the French trains are starting to run again... ! Let the games begin!

A new Parisian icon is born

"a nation whose main problem sometimes appears to be that it believes it has a problem ... " Terrific read from @PhilippeAuclair theguardian.com/world/article/…

I don’t remember the far right marching when a white ex-army lad killed 4 women with a crossbow 🤔

Making history 🏊‍♀️ I’ve been in #Paris a week now, have walked or used the metro (uncrowded compared to usual) to get to 5 different venues & have never been so enchanted with Paris Paris je t'aime 💞 Impeccable organisation & use of historic locations by Paris 2024 Huge bravo🥇

Are the Paris Olympics doing the unthinkable and making the French happy? dlvr.it/TBJfHP

The moment the Olympics died.

France’s new national treasure Léon Marchand 22 years old Four gold medals, Paris 2024 🇫🇷🏅

Lucy Connolly wants to see migrants burnt alive. Lucy Connolly is a registered childminder with children of all races and ethnicity in her care. Lucy Connolly is also the wife of a Conservative Party elected official.

I celebrate for The Local France a half century of progress on the once murderous French roads. Who deserves praise? Many people... but not all French drivers. thelocal.fr/20240807/opini…

I do think we should get more credit for hosting France’s annual riots while they have the Olympics. Proper Entente cordiale

Just left Paris 2024 Olympic Games and I can say that (with apologies to my old home city of London), it was the best Olympic Games I’ve ever been to (and it was my 9th Games). Tremendous venues, atmosphere, culture, food and people. C’est Bon!

One of the most shocking things I've ever seen on twitter 👇 This poem was written by someone sent to Dachau concentration camp for resisting the Nazis Thank goodness British people removed from power someone with so loathsome a moral compass as Esther McVey Truly abhorrent

Any genuine Fontaines DC fans out there who got spare tickets for Paris Zenith concert on Wednesday night? Touts and bots pipe down.