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’
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts