David Lawday
Articles by David Lawday
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Politics
Germany takes its medicine badly
- 05 April 2004
Tony Blair's problems are nothing to what Chancellor Schroder faces in Berlin. His party loathes him and his country is in a deep sulk, because he has brought home to the people that they are no longer the wealthiest in Europe
Politics
Strangest of bedfellows
- 15 March 2004
The entente cordiale, to be celebrated by the Queen in a sentimental speech, is a lie. In 1904, it stopped Britain and France going to war, but only just. By David Lawday
Society
NS Profile - Nicolas Sarkozy
- 05 January 2004
The son of a Hungarian immigrant, the interior minister has taken France by storm. Can he now push Chirac aside? Nicolas Sarkozy profiled
Society
Why France is tied in knots over girls who wear the scarf
- 20 October 2003
The French shed blood to overthrow clerical power and establish republican values. They still believe that religion should be kept out of schools
World Affairs
Now French intellectuals love America
- 22 September 2003
Contrary as always, the philosophers and literati of France have decided that they should stick up for Bush's good ole US of A, reports David Lawday in Paris
Politics
Papa's girl sings a new kind of music
- 05 May 2003
David Lawday meets Marine Le Pen, daughter of Jean-Marie, and hears of her sympathy for France's immigrants and for the British Conservative Party
Politics
The Gallic spanner in the US war works
- 24 February 2003
France and America are almost alone these days in believing they have a civilising mission in the world. The rivalry obliges France to box above its weight
Politics
How Cheney swung an election
- 30 September 2002
Anti-war feeling and, most of all, help from the US vice-president restored the German chancellor to office
Society
NS Profile - Edmund Stoiber
- 16 September 2002
This Bavarian doesn't wear feathered hats or swill beer. Germany's hard right candidate for chancellor treads softly. Edmund Stoiber profiled by David Lawday
