Just what is wrong with the French?
We Brits love to make fun of the French. It's close to a national pastime. Back in 2008, inspired by news that a trader at Société Générale, Jérôme Kerviel, was suspected of running up losses totalling $7 billion in unauthorised deals, the Daily Mash published a brilliant piece of satire: 'French trader was forced to work 30 hours a week'. It encapsulates, neatly, everything that we in this country find irritating about our neighbours to the south. Miraculously, not all