Philistines can keep London – we'll always have Paris

Are there a few fag butts on the streets of the Marais? Perhaps, but anyone who thinks London is more culturally vital than the City of Light is deluded

It’s midnight in Paris – at least according to the British newspapers. A plan to police the French capital with an “incivility brigade” has opened a sewer of schadenfreude as the British media portray the city as a “post-apocalyptic hellhole”. The brigade is a public relations disaster. Its very existence draws attention to cigarette butts and public urination instead of publicising the city’s strengths, while the patrols are reported to be largely absent.

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