So just what has politics got to do with a move to France? Well, politicians - love ‘em or hate ‘em - like death and taxes, in the modern, media-rich world, they can be hard to avoid. In my youth, I used to be quite a keen (entirely amateur) follower of British politics. I guess this was when I was still idealistic and hadn’t been touched by enough experience of political failure to realise that, actually, politics, while a better way of getting things done than dropping bombs on each … [Read more...]