No, this isn’t a website about Stephen Clarke the Olympic swimmer, Stephen Clarke the classical pianist, Stephen Clarke the pop singer or Stephen Clarke “Wisconsin’s longest established tree surgeon since 1992”.

It’s the official website of Stephen Clarke, writer, whose new book is 1000 Years of Annoying the French.  I’m not saying that it’s good to annoy them, of course, just that we Anglos seem to have done it rather a lot over the past ten centuries or so ...