Category: France

L’horloge orange

7 November, 2005 (08:37) | France, Housing, Slums, World news | 3 comments

After the riots, what’s it going to be then?
 

Where I lived was with my dadda and mum in the flats of Municipal Flatblock 18A, between Kingsley Avenue and Wilsonsway.  I got to the big main door with no trouble, through I did pass one young malchick sprawling and creeching and moaning in the gutter, all […]

City of light, city of flames

3 November, 2005 (12:33) | France, Housing, Slums, World news |

Sooner or later, slums always explode. 
 
They may slumber for months, years, even decades, but always — always — they go up in flames. 
 
I wish this were not so, but it is.
 
 
Paris, November, 2005
 
Something awful is happening in Paris, and I fear this may only the beginning.  As the Washington Post describes it:
 
PARIS, Nov. […]