The New Statesmen excels at raising important questions and never actually answering them. Here we have a brief article about the rising populist tide in France, one that claims it is about 'spaces' but then goes on to make an almost entirely class-based analysis. There is the steady fearmongering about antisemitism, and more of the typical liberal handwringing. No evidence-based claims or predictions. It is all feelings and no facts. BTW: the plural of "metropolis" is METROPOLI, not metropolises. Christ.