Sunday, April 10, 2005
Dalrymple Interview
Bernard Chapin interviews Theodore Dalrymple. Here Dalrymple explains why he is moving from England to France:
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France is twenty years behind Britain in social decomposition, and there is at least still a public commitment to intelligence and culture. The people are better mannered on the whole. The weather is better. I prefer Chirac to Blair: at least he knows he is an unprincipled unscrupulous ruthless villain, whereas Blair does not. I recognise that France is not paradise, but nowhere is. Finally, with regard to tax every Frenchman regards it as his patriotic duty to cheat the taxman.
