No worries, Macron has been working very hard to put an end to Françafrique and it is already mostly over :)

Just curious, do you get 10¢ for every metaphor you write or something?

My city hosts a number of cruise ships, and it was explained to me they can’t be connected to the city grid, so they instead keep their diesel engines running the entire time.

It’s a local air quality issue, and the bigger the ship the more it pollutes locally, even though it might be more efficient on a global level.

A far-right candidate (Nicolas Dupont-Aignan) proposed imprisoning French mujahideen in the Kerguelen Islands in 2016.