Culture / Media
Media Briefing
The latest in newspapers, record shops and book publishing.
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Culture / Newspapers
How convenient
Chez Jean is a café, sassy superette and international newsstand rolled into one.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 19 April
The Liberal Democrats triumph
Last week, Britain’s three main party leaders took part in the first of a series of live TV debates.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Monday 30 May
France 24 licks its wounds after ‘playground’ fight
It was meant to be a new face for France in the world – a multilingual rolling news channel to compete with CNN and the BBC. But five years since its launch, France 24 is limping along, shamed by a chaotic feud between its…
Affairs / Books
Monocolumn
Saturday 10 April
The plot thickens
“He looked at the sun shine on Beirut. This could be Cannes or Miami, he thought, if only for a few details.”
Affairs / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Wednesday 10 March
Michelin – the falling star
When I wrote to a food expert recently to express my dismay that my favourite Parisian restaurant might not get a star this year, his answer was telling.
Affairs / Politics
Americas Briefing
Canada welcomes the world this month as part of that national branding exercise called the Winter Olympics, but it is also tinkering with its multicultural self-image in one other notable way. For the first time in 15 years…
Culture / Diplomacy
Tokyo story
As part of our series on the foreign media coverage of the US presidential election, Aya Igarashi of ‘The Yomiuri Shimbun’ explains why Japan is worried about having a Democrat in the White House.
Affairs / Politics
Briefing Europe
Nicolas Sarkozy's French style; the Nordic Davos; and Ukraine's Britart-loving oligarch.