One of the most popular TV programmes of my childhood was a French show called L’Ecole Des Fans. The reason behind its huge draw was simple: L’Ecole Des Fans was a game show with arguably the flattest, widest podium ever: its slogan was ‘tout le monde gagne’ – everyone wins.
In this era where we are ‘democratising’ – oh, how I hate this word – everything from luxury goods all the way to nuclear warheads, I like to think that L’Ecole Des Fans was the start of the democratisation of, well, winning. Now this is something quite familiar to us in the Middle East where we’re pretty good at illusory victories. The democratisation of winning, however, goes further by turn
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