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Coco Khan

Am I a chicken-shop lefty? Here’s what a French fast food row taught me about politics

Queues outside Master Poulet chicken shop
The Master Poulet rotisserie in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, near Paris. Photograph: Apaydin Alain/ABACA/Shutterstock

How do you like your progressive politics? Are you net-zero left or anti-identity politics left? A “legalising drugs” kind of radical or someone whose public sector solidarity includes police? Nato or Nat-no? The reputation for infighting in lefty spaces – where policy disagreements harden into personal tests of morality – needs neither introduction nor encouragement.

But reading about the left-on-left battle at Master Poulet, a French chicken chain that just opened its first UK branch, I found myself mulling a question that felt more than a little personal: am I chicken shop left?

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