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Inside the Dutch anti-lockdown riots

27 January 2021 8:11 pm

Images of Dutch rioters throwing stones and fireworks at police, looting shops and facing water cannon have been published all…

Whoever invented the referendum deserves a kicking

9 April 2016 9:00 am

My favourite quote of the year so far comes from the author Fay Weldon. ‘If this were an all-woman society,’…

Brugge: best not to call it Bruges

Woe betide you if you try to speak French in Flanders

27 June 2015 9:00 am

Usually, one of the first indications that you’ve entered a bilingual country is that the road signs are in two…

Europe in 60 languages

15 November 2014 9:00 am

So Basque is an ergative language! Well, I never. I couldn’t have told you that a week ago. I even…