Toby Young Toby Young

French cowardice knows no bounds

Plus ça change: they leave it to Americans and Brits to protect them from murderous fascists

issue 29 August 2015

Boy, am I glad I’m not a Frenchman. Last week’s dramatic incident on board a Paris-bound train, in which a terrorist atrocity was narrowly averted by a group of heroic passengers, is a stain on French manhood to rival the Battle of Agincourt.

I’m not referring to the incompetence of the French security services, who seem unable to stop terrorists roaming the country, shooting people at will.

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