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 deludedIt’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