John Lichfield is correspondent in France for the Independent newspaper. Last Saturday, he published this column on France which has some good insight into French people’s mindsets:Â John Lichfield: Holidaying en masse: What France can teach us about the Big Society – John Lichfield, Commentators – The Independent. I won’t post extracts because of copyright issues, but read on, it will give you some idea about the people we are trying to reach out to.