They've not gone away you know. posted by Richard Seymour

As Gerry Adams once said of the IRA. The protesters have stormed French streets again, and another national strike has taken place.

Of course, there shouldn't have been a week-long hiatus between the last strike and this one. The French government is weak, and an indefinite strike would kill it off for good. So, while the students have been keeping up their protests, French unions have really refused to strike a killer blow, preferring a series of calendar stoppages which the government and employers can prepare for and eventually defeat.

Anyway, according to The Guardian:

The Irish budget airline, Ryanair, cancelled all its flights in and out of France. And the British budget airline Jet2.com used its website to attack the strikers as "lazy frogs" who should "get back to work".

The Jet2.com chief executive, Philip Meeson, later described the jibe as "a bit of fun". He said: "After all, the French call us 'les rosbifs'."

Just a bit of fun, you see. If I wasn't strapped in the masochistic straitjacket of political-correctness, I could laugh along. Where's my sense of humour? What am I, a communist?