Here is a book that all the presidential candidates should read. For when a Scottish political journalist decides to decipher our political customs, there are lessons to be learned. In “Schizophrenie francaise, Sego, Sarko, Jacques et moi” (Jean-Claude Gawsewitch), Emma Vandore, a Bloomberg journalist, recounts three years in the corridors of French power surrounded by politicians’ secrets and their way of life. “You wouldn’t fancy becoming my mistress,” proposes a Socialist grandee one evening in La Rochelle. She also covers the different Franco-British ideologies, the habits of the Elysee Court, her frustrations with bureaucracy, transport strikes, student demos against the CPE (youth work contract), Zizou’s moment of madness at the World Cup final, the strange love habits of the French…. 'Find them a good boss and they will throw their cherished antidepressants out of the window,' she recommends.
An urbanist and writer, I have fifteen years of political and economic journalism experience and now specialise in urban policy and communications. Formerly head of the economic service for The Associated Press in Paris and Bloomberg’s chief political reporter in France, I have covered a breadth of industry sectors and political issues working across the globe. Recently, I have focusing on London and West Africa in policy and communications roles for organisations including the Centre for London think tank, the Financial Times and the Town and Country Planning Association. I have an RTPI-accredited masters in spatial planning from the Bartlett (UCL), where I specialised in regeneration with a focus on London’s East End and the Olympic Park area.
You can follow some of my thoughts and actions in the planning blog on the right hand side of this page.
Underneath the photo, you can click for a link to my CV (with details of how to contact me if you would like to employ me for freelance writing, research, PR or advisory work), or click on journalism for links to sample articles and information about my 2007 book on French politics 'Schizophrenie Francaise.'
Here is a book that all the presidential candidates should read. For when a Scottish political journalist decides to decipher our political customs, there are lessons to be learned. In “Schizophrenie francaise, Sego, Sarko, Jacques et moi” (Jean-Claude Gawsewitch), Emma Vandore, a Bloomberg journalist, recounts three years in the corridors of French power surrounded by politicians’ secrets and their way of life. “You wouldn’t fancy becoming my mistress,” proposes a Socialist grandee one evening in La Rochelle. She also covers the different Franco-British ideologies, the habits of the Elysee Court, her frustrations with bureaucracy, transport strikes, student demos against the CPE (youth work contract), Zizou’s moment of madness at the World Cup final, the strange love habits of the French…. 'Find them a good boss and they will throw their cherished antidepressants out of the window,' she recommends. 
