What is not taught
Listen to this article : For a very long time (in fact, for millennia) education was limited to training the youngest to take over the jobs of their parents (and especially their fathers, since this mainly concerned boys). The…
Listen to this article : For a very long time (in fact, for millennia) education was limited to training the youngest to take over the jobs of their parents (and especially their fathers, since this mainly concerned boys). The…
Listen to this article : For thirty years, if you want to win an election in France, don’t have any programme! If you have the misfortune to publish one, people would at best talk about it for three days…
Listen to this article : In all languages, words are alive; they are constantly evolving; they change their spelling; they change their meaning; their concepts become stale; their ideas are diverted, and sometimes enriched; this evolution is never innocent…
Listen to this article : We can never say enough bad things about all these people from elsewhere who, for centuries, have been striving to disfigure France, to destroy it, to bring it only the worst. And worse still, they…
Listen to this article : It is believed that when a truth is acquired, by the play of science or simple logic, it is acquired for all and for all time, and that we will be able to build, for…
As Harold Macmillan said to Alec Douglas-Home in 1963 when he handed over his office at 10 Downing Street: “Our country is doing very well. And, as long as you don’t invade Afghanistan, you’ll be just fine too. Advice that…
Listen to this article : What is happening in Afghanistan, and the tragedy that awaits those who remain trapped there after the departure of the Americans, should remind us of an obvious fact that is too often forgotten: any event,…
Listen to this article : There are many reasons to fear the worst at this particular time, when everything is wavering: a pandemic that never ends; the climate that is becoming more violently disorganised than ever; diversity in perdition;…
Listen to this article: The beginning of summer 2021 will go down in history as a turning point, just like the summer of 1936, when the Western democracies chose to distract themselves rather than rearm in the face of…