Thursday, November 10, 2005

Urban life - Darcus Howe finds colonialism in the Paris suburbs / New Statesman, 14 Nov 2005

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Darcus Howe
"What strikes me about the historic events unfolding in France is that those in authority are behaving like rabbits caught in the headlights, stunned by the depth and range of the revolt. They offer nothing constructive - only a curfew (Jacques Chirac) and descriptions of the insurrectionists as 'scum' (Nicolas Sarkozy)." [Sub required]