Populists have the environmental movement in their sights

As midlife crises go, relearning French is probably not a particularly adventurous option, but four days into an intensive language course in the middle of nowhere in rural France teaches you some things about yourself. For example, I had no idea that I am - and probably have always been - a kinaesthetic learner, someone who absorbs information more easily if I am shown the meaning physically rather than reading it. For a reasonably bookish person this has been a revelation. I didn't realise that relearning a language can be tricky because that "foreign language muscle" in my typically Irish…