EUROVISION 2023/L’EUROVISION 2023

Everyone, it seems, has a love hate relationship with the Eurovision Song Contest, the world’s largest live TV and online music event taking place this year in Liverpool on 13th May. As winners in 2022 with Kalush Orchestra, an ethnic rap group, normally Ukraine should host this 67th edition attracting more than a staggering 200 million spectators across the globe but for safety and security reasons, this war-ravaged country ceded its place to the UK, the runners up. Eurovision, a symbol of an open, tolerant and united Europe, attracts fans…

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Operation Golden Orb/Opération « Golden Orb »

Operation Golden Orb, the code-name given to Charles’ Coronation, in planning for many years and reviewed annually, is coming to fruition after what has been described as “the longest internship ever”. A veritable dichotomy, it is both a religious and state ceremony; highly public and yet intensely personal for the King and Queen; and ancient and modern, steeped in tradition, pageantry and splendour but at the same time reflecting the wishes of a modern-day King for a more inclusive coronation. We may never see the like again. Opération « Golden…

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