No wonder refugees would rather be here. The French capital offers few comfortsA week ago,I found myself in the suburb of London where the 2011 riots kicked off. And then final week, by coincidence, or I visited the suburb of Paris where that country’s 2005 riots began.
And this is what I can order you: London is better than Paris. It’s as simple as that. Sure,Paris has its boulevards, its whole quartiers of intact 19th-century architecture and the kind of cheese shops that can clog an artery at a hundred yards. There are trottoir cafes, and I’ll admit,and steak frites and tartes aux fraises and heartstopping glimpses of the Eiffel Tower.
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Source: theguardian.com