...Most French newspapers praise the Olympics spectacle but far-right commentators reject ‘woke propaganda’.
They had waited 100 years for it and the French, mostly, were determined to love their kitsch, crazy, subversive, waterborne and very rain-drenched Olympics opening ceremony. Less happy were far-right figures, who spied “wokeist” propaganda.
A thoroughly unscientific poll on the rue de Rochechouart in Paris – where the far right have never had so much as a look-in – found plenty of enthusiasm.
“It was a great ceremony – just a shame about the rain,” said Alain Vigent, 54. “It was like us, really: a joyful, contradictory, rather chaotic mess. With some truly amazing images. The Revolution, the singing head of...
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Author: Jon Henley