Listen to this article : There is nothing more terrible, for a person or for a people, than to feel humiliated. This terrible feeling comes with the sensation of not being treated as you deserve, of having lost your rank,…
Listen to this article : François Mitterrand used to say that, in France, the left could only win a presidential or legislative election if it obtained at least 43% of the votes in the first round. Today, we are very…
Do we know how to grasp what changes in small habits and see in them what speaks volumes about who we are or who we are becoming? Do we know how to read, in imperceptible changes in behaviour, the major…
We are constantly being told of the impending global supremacy of China; and there are good reasons to believe that it is possible: China is asserting its ambitions everywhere, including through its leaders and intellectuals; China is also emerging from…
Even if, one day in the near future, we finally have a deluge of vaccines in Europe and the rest of the world; even if we reopen the theatres, cinemas, hotels and restaurants this summer; even if the autumn could…
I am angry to see that European leaders were so naïve, unlike their British and American counterparts, that they had not requested that the pharmaceutical companies to whom they gave research grants also give them priority for the delivery of…
The resolution of a major crisis, such as the one we are experiencing, depends first and foremost on the relevance of the decisions taken in the emergency to try to resolve it. And today, only one decision is necessary: vaccinate…
It is a sad fact that culture is one of the main collateral victims of the current pandemic. Indeed, nothing is sadder than empty concert halls, unoccupied theatres, closed cinemas and deserted museums. Nothing is more distressing than dismantled symphony…
This week, for the first time in a year, I got back on a plane. A long haul. To go to Asia. Then another one, to come back, very quickly. I hadn’t been back in an airport for twelve months,…
