La Septimanie by Michael Brady   Enter the masked donkey ‘Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est’, which Latin learners will know, begins Julius Caesar’s “Commentaries on the Gallic War” and means “All Gaul…

10th and 17th June 2012 François Hollande of the Socialist Party became the new president of France on May 6th, 2012. He must now chose his cabinet, and create the 14th Assemblée Nationale of the…

The election nearly always has two rounds because it is very unusual for any candidate to win an absolute majority, of 50 per cent of the vote plus one.