French Politics Going Up a Gear?

BBC : 'The trial of former French president Jacques Chirac is going to take place in the same courtroom where Queen Marie Antoinette was sentenced to death'.

Sensing new, exciting times across the Channel, Beeb?

Darwin and Wallace: Fear and Awe

"Darwin was afraid of what he discovered; Wallace was not', said interestingly the conservationist Tim Flannery (on Andrew Marr's brillinant Monday programme on BBC4).

'His spiritualism was a flaw of his character', he addes foolishly.