Wonderful FT article on the state of the 5th Republic in France.
“French technocrats spend their working lives in a few arrondissements inside the Périphérique, the ring road that encircles the Parisian court like a moat. They treat the rest of France almost like a colony, inhabited by smelly peasants who failed to absorb the Parisian culture they had been taught at school, and who vote far right or far left.”
This could just as easily be written about the technocrats in London, Washington, Ottawa, etc.
Is France on the road to a Sixth Republic? https://on.ft.com/3lK26bm
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