Old Boy wrote:
> Yet more praise from the French...
>
> This time from a bastion of English-ness Peregrine Worsthorne, even
> suggesting the English media is biased against the French...
>
> "Would you like to live in a country which has no binge drinking, no
> ASBOS, no tabloid newspapers, no section of the country wanting to
> secede, no litter, no obesity problems, no teenage gun culture, no
> Olympic games, no soldiers dying in Iraq, little private debt and,
> above all, virtually no Muslim terrorist threat?
>
You are wrong on the fourth point. The Basques are not only in Spain.
> Of course you would, particularly if, in addition, that same country
> had a public service transport system, an NHS and a national
> educational system that worked exceptionally well. I am referring, of
> course, to France, which the UK media, in its coverage of their
> elections, is writing off as the sick man of Europe, simply and solely
> due to its comparatively low economic growth, as if economic growth
> was the only significant test of a country's well-being."
>
> More: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=1341
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