French state hit squad pursuing Daily Mail Paris team

The new consensus is not to waste billions on bombing campaigns against petty criminals with a convenient and bloody millennial ideology, smartphones and social media, but that the whole movement can be utterly demoralised by the Daily Mail publishing pictures of suicide bombers in the bath, that for Paul Dacre this is the new Stephen…
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Nicht Offenbach, sondern Offenekloake

Explanation: These lovely folks, who unfortunately make some boring old men’s heads and bowels explode with fear and vergüenza ajena/sympathetic shame, have as one of their emotistraps the alleged Beethovenism re Bach, “Not a brook but an ocean.” The sea is so boring. Imagine the success Charles Trenet might have had with the following if…
U.S. troops inspect an open sewer in Baghdad, 2009.

Time for people to start loving the grocer’s apostrophe

Check the photo of French fans from England-France at Wembley tonight. The match was all about soft power, of which I can’t find a history. I mean, it’s not like it started with Joe Nye in 1990. Any suggestions? (You know I’m thinking about the good generally done to the international image of the Savoy/Italy…

Low-/no-alcohol month

Landlords have been asked to report offenders. Recently M encountered an enthusiastic early-evening drinker clad in lycra and struck up a conversation. “Oh, my boyfriend thinks I’m at Zumba,” she explained, “but I hate being shouted at and told what to do, so I come here instead.”