C'est l'automne. Strike season has arrived in France. Air France pilots have just finished a 4 day stoppage to protest against retirement reforms (notably allowing them to carry on till they're 65), which we've been watching somewhat nervously as we're off on holiday in two days. And later this week, railway workers, teachers and postmen are all due to go on strike.
Meanwhile, having lost his court case against the firm selling voodoo dolls in his image (appeal pending), Sarkozy is as busy as usual elsewhere, saving the world financial system, chuckling at the Socialists failure to choose a new leader, gloating about the fact the France's economy is not in recession (thanks to huge growth of all of 0.1% in the last quarter), arresting the Eta leader in the French Basque country and comforting les proches of a French MP who has just killed his lover and then himself. Ok, perhaps not all of that, but where there's credit to be taken, he'll claim it...
