out on the streets. translation: being a young north african black or arab male in the estates. boys suffer abusive controlled racial profiling. now they are killing them. this is far from the first time this happens. i ve lived in france and i ve covered plenty of riots there. they re rarely as violent as these latest ones, and i ve seen for myself the way the french police deal with them with a ferocity that often shocks a mere anglo saxon. after the major riots of 2005, the police were given the kind of anti riot weapons which are banned in most european countries, and they use them. on average the french police kill four times as many people as they did only 12 years ago. the gendarmes, as opposed to the ordinary police, are courier soldiers. they re allowed to use armed force more easily than the police are. and there s a lot less political control over policing in france than there is, say, in germany or britain. the police deny that there s a culture of racism and br
huge cultural significance. but clearly, somebody like george osborne, who people might have heard of, he was the chancellor of the exchequer here in the uk under the previous conservative government, but actually now one of hisjobs is chair of the trustees at the british museum, and what you re saying is ostensibly his point, which is, we are a museum for the world, we re hugely visited by people around the world, and therefore, sharing it in creative ways and finding ways of doing deals. would one of those deals be handing back the elgin marbles? well, that s the key question, isn t it? so elgin marbles, often called now the parthenon sculptures, that s the one that here in the uk certainly and in greece is the most high profile in this area of debate, which is what to do with those. and george osborne has previously said there s a deal to be done. very recently, the mayor of london said he hoped that they could do a deal and that they should share,
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