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The misery of Macron’s Covid clampdown

24 December 2021

10:16 PM

24 December 2021

10:16 PM

My daughter’s Christmas won’t quite be the same this year. She and I are in England but her French mother has been prevented from making the trip by her president. It’s a funny world when hundreds of people can quite easily cross illegally from France to England in small boats – 1,200 in four days last week – but a mother isn’t allowed to take a train to be with her daughterat Christmas.

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