The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. So said Oscar Wilde. But we’d say it all depends on who’s doing the talking and where.

We’ve just seen a recent issue of The Independent on Sunday in which a Dom Joly writes that on a visit to the South of France he picked up “a curious little magazine called The Riviera Reporter”. He then takes a look at the Damian Elwes column and with a couple of selective quotes tries to imply that the whole magazine is designed to “make expat readers feel happy in their decision to live in France”.

Damian’s column has a very personal tone and certainly isn’t typical of the magazine’s overall content (as a glance at this website would show). Maybe we should just ignore Joly’s piece but it did irritate us rather.

Over the years we’ve been noticed by many publications (The Daily Telegraph once called us “the Bible of the Côte d’Azur”) and sometimes critically. That usually, in a Wildean spirit, we readily accept. But we somehow couldn’t do that with Dom Joly’s remarks even though they appeared in a virtually bankrupt newspaper that struggles to cling on to its dwindling readership of ageing lefties.

But we’re nice people (even Damian): money’s tight at the Sindie, we know, but we hope there’s enough in the kitty to pay Dom for his dodgy wordage.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/dom-joly/dom-joly-unhappy-expat-should-have-gone-to-iceland-1693383.html.