Archive for June, 2009

Cheap Elizabeth

After the MPs, BBC, now Buckingham palace revealed its expenses… The result, each Bristish paid 69 pences last year for the Royal Family… The Queen puts her hand at her purse…

Jeannie and Steve : The sport’s Aliens

Even if you don’t like sports, even if you don’t like cyclism, if you are French you know Jeannie Longo… She’s the Arlette Laguiller of the “petite reine” (Little Queen). She’s a monument. And yesterday, she proved it again in winning the French time trial competition at 50 years old. The same case in the [...]

Wimbledon much more “classe” than Roland Garros

The Burqa and the Law

Since one week in France, a big political debate turns around the Burqa. The difference between France and the UK is France is a laïc country but very very laic, and we don’t allow in administration and school religious signs. In the UK, it’s not a problem. The debate turn around : do we have [...]

Murray et l’histoire d’une rivalité…

Pour vivre l’exploit sportif de la semaine, il fallait se trouver dimanche après-midi à Baron’s Court, à l’ouest de Londres, où le Queen’s rendait son verdict. Ce tournoi de tennis sur gazon préparatif à Wimbledon a vu la victoire d’Andy Murray contre l’Américain James Blake. Le Britannique (3eme mondial) à réalisé un exploit retentissant puisqu’il [...]

New contributor for WhoKares… and French written

A new contributor just joined WhoKares.. A French guy… Jean Sé. He’s going to write about Sports and in French… So welcome Jeansé… You can comment in French or English we’ll reply in our language in any case…

The Royal Ascot not only a horse race…

The Royal Ascot takes place right now in the UK. It’s a prestigious horse race we can try to compare that to the “Grand prix de Diane” in France… But it’s much more… It’s a real English institution where posh people meet people who try to be posh. It’s a hat catwalk and a horse [...]

Elizabeth and her gentlemen in red

Swine flu in France and the UK : The same vision

Now the swine flu is very well settle down in Europe. And today UK annouces the first death in another continent than America. Last week, the OMS grow the level at the maximum and France said they don’t want to raise it because everything is under control in France … But this week end near [...]

Tube strike in London… More powerful than in France

As a French person, I perfectly know how a strike works. Yes, for the other counries, France is the country of the baguette, Tour Eiffel and strikes. But for a while, strikes in France are not anymore powerful. Sarkozy doesn’t give a shit. He said in front of the Bruxelles commission : “Now when there [...]