While George Osborne is crowing about the success of austerity, Simon Wren-lewis examines the high costs of Osborne’s failed economic policy.
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Simon Wren-Lewis: The economic and political cost of UK austerity
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – Data suggests a unilateral Greek exit would have been much better than their colonial future under the Troika
The damage done to Greece will not disappear – at least not for decades. Read here
Finance
Bella Caledonia: In Defence of Social Media
“At what point did politics move from being a competing narrative of possible futures and become instead the wasteland of our sub-conscious fears exploited for a lucrative buck by Etonian snake-oil salesmen?” Read here
Corruption
The Guardian: Cloud of corruption hangs over Bulgaria as it takes up EU presidency
Among journalists there is a trick to getting controversial articles past the powers that be: wait until between Christmas and New Year. This is a real corker in the Guardian, explaining why despite the horrendous […]
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