I’m just off the train at Nanterre, a suburb west of Paris, and walking down a pedestrianised avenue to Paris La Defense Arena, a hulking, 40,000-capacity quadrilateral that’s the largest indoor arena in Europe. “Welcome to New York”, sings one of the most recognisable voices of the 21st century from the speakers lining the road. The dissonance is fitting. If Taylor Swift can rearrange politics, geopolitics and economics, why not geography?
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