Just because I haven’t posted much of late doesn’t give you permission to bombard my site with comment spam, you bastard.<\/p>\n
Sorry, I’ve been a bit busy in the real world of late. Plus utterly uninspired by anything that’s been going on either in Britain or Europe – when I’ve had the time to check out the news, at any rate.<\/p>\n
Still, Sarkozy’s been getting up to some interesting stuff – if you want to get up to speed, try a combination of this overview<\/a> from the Economist’s Europe blog (plus this follow-up<\/a>), Politique<\/a> (formerly French Election 2007), France Politic<\/a> (formerly France Decides 2007), and the English-language version of Le Figaro<\/a>. If you can read French, the best places to start exploring the (exceedingly healthy) world of French political blogs are probably des Blogs Francophones<\/a> combined with Versac<\/a>‘s blogroll, and a handy thematic breakdown of what the French press is saying can be found at News Blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Right, now I’m off to read Herodotus before getting on with some work – but am currently hugely frustrated with the Aubrey De Selincourt<\/a> Penguin Classics translation (following the 1970s clean-up). It’s AWFUL. Anyone want to recommend a better one? Ideally comprehensively annotated, but the most important thing is simply for it to be readable…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Note to the internet: Just because I haven’t posted much of late doesn’t give you permission to bombard my site with comment spam, you bastard. Note to regular readers (if I’ve got any left after so few posts): Sorry, I’ve … Continue reading