Helen Hickey

This is what the resistance movement ‘Women’s March’ is about: We have a voice. On Saturday, women, men and children, united by their sense of outrage at the appointment of Donald Trump as the 45th President of America, finally had their say. Five million people in 600 locations across the globe marched in jubilant defiance of all that Donald J. Trump stands for, and to put woman’s rights, civil rights and basic humanity back on the agenda. The largest women-led march took pl

Minus 3 degrees was too cold to drag the kids to the midnight bash on the Champs-Élysée, and so the New Year’s Day parade seemed like the next best thing. Our city of Paris certainly knows how to throw a good party, and despite the grey skies, Sunday afternoon’s was a fabulous example of exactly that. For two solid hours, marching bands, entertainers and dancers representing almost all corners of the world — Bolivia to Africa, the US to India — strutted and flaunted their stu