Olympic athletes are going to be on the hot seat this summer in Paris. Not just metaphorically; the Paris Olympic Committee wants this Olympics to be the greenest ever (take that, Classical Greeks!), and one of the measures they have taken is to build the Olympic village without any air conditioning. There will be no […]
IN a distant echo of the Franco-Prussian War – this time with tractors rather than cannons – Paris is once more under siege. French farmers have, with military efficiency, cut off the main motorway arteries feeding the heart of the capital. Their message is simple: ‘no farmers = no food’. In 1870, starved of provisions […]
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