Feedback | 10 May 2003

Comment on with friends like these . . . by Simon Heffer
(03/05/2003)

Could you please inform Simon Heffer, the next time you speak to him, that the French banned British beef as a result of the British Christmas time ban of French turkey a few years previously.

If he cares to research the matter more thoroughly, he may find more reasons for France’s actions towards its neighbour, rather than a presupposed Inferiority complex that is surely an alien concept to anyone but Mr Heffer.
Simon Woodhouse.

‘Dieu et mon droit’, and ‘Honi soit qui mal y pense’ are two of the sacred mottoes of the British state, but wait, they’re French! So is the emblem of three lions on the England cricket team’s cap or the British Lions jersey, these are lions of the Dukes of Anjou! Outside the Mother of Parliaments stands an equestrian statue of Richard 1, an English hero and yes, a Frenchman! Was Edward VII on to something? Of course he was, and Significantly his own mother was the last English Queen to be crowned Queen of France.