Charlemagne

摘要

Bliss is it in a financial crisis to be a socialist. Or so it ought to be. In speculators and ratings agencies, Europe's left has a ready cast of villains and rogues. In simmering social discontent, it has an energising force. A recent issue of Paris-Match inadvertently captured the mood: page after full-colour page on Britain's rioting underclass were followed by gory visual detail of the bling yachts crowding into the bay near Saint Tropez. Time, surely, to put social inclusion before defiant decadence.