Euro
Beware of Greeks Playing Games
Have Syriza’s negotiations failed as spectacularly as many claim?
Having One’s Cake and Eating It
The Greeks do not — indeed cannot — pay their debts and yet they do not want to leave the euro. Something has got to give
EU are you kidding?
In, out or shake it all about?
Hapless Hollande’s French Farce Flops
‘Hollande’s ministers are falling out among themselves and criticism from his
left-wing allies is getting ever more strident’
Mediterranean Melodrachma
‘Conditions in Greece are grim, as one can see from the elderly ladies silently begging for their family’s next meal’
Beyond Euroscepticism: Time for the Alternative
Critics of the flawed euro project have been vindicated but gloating is premature. They need to set out their own vision
Euro Gonner!
‘It is not rational to delight in a eurozone collapse. But the euro has become the supreme icon of all we despise about the EU’
The BBC’s painful novelties
In his October Wine column, Saintsbury quotes Dr Johnson on novelties to great effect: “…novelty is always grateful where it gives no pain.” Well, the BBC gave me pain twice this week with its novelties.
Auf Wiedersehen, Euro
‘The interests of Germany and Europe are the same: Germany should leave the euro’
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?