A very British paradox

By Bagehot

WALKING down Piccadilly a short while ago, I realised I was looking at the Paris public transport logo on the side of a red London bus. The RATP logo is rather neat: it shows a face looking up at the sky, which is also a stylised image of the River Seine. Around me, I guessed, most Londoners neither knew nor cared about this very visible symbol of foreign ownership.

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