PEOPLE of Glasgow know what it is to cry over a national treasure. When the Glasgow School of Art, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece, was destroyed by the flames not only once but twice, you felt a sense of loss similar to mourning for a loved one.
NEARLY four years ago, millions of French citizens peacefully took to the streets after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo to claim that terrorism wouldn’t divide them. Last July, thousands of ecstatic football fans gathered on the Champs Elysées to catch a glimpse of their beloved team who had won the World Cup. Yet over the past few weeks the country has appeared more divided than ever and the Champs Elysées have been the stage of scenes similar to civil war.
