The case made in that article is the only one you ever hear in the press, and it repeats all the usual lies about the French economy, precisely those debunked in my text above (that the 35-hour week destroys work, that France creates only public sector jobs, that it has no growth).

Everybody in the press disagrees with me, except that they have their facts (also found in the press, but never put together with the "common wisdom" on France to notice the blatant contradictions) all wrong.

I gave you facts - lots of them, from unimpeachable sources. Which ones exactly do you contest, please? Otherwise you're just repeating talking points or anectodes - as are the rightwing ideologues of the Torygraph.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes