This article provides a good description of what daily austerity looks like in Britain and where its ideological support comes from and functions.
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Emma Dent Coad: Kensington and Chelsea is a microcosm of the evils of austerity
Corruption
Politico: Inside Facebook’s fight against European regulation
Dozens of Commission documents show how the tech giant pushed back against rules on issues ranging from copyright to privacy. Read here
EU politics
Richard Murphy: Schäuble gets it wrong, even in hindsight
Wolfgang Schäuble, the leader of Europe’s austerity campaign and devastator of Greece, is retiring. Neither he, nor the German media, have any doubt that he saved Europe from itself. Richard Murphy is neither German, nor […]
Finance
Jan Fichtner: The Cayman conundrum: why is one tiny archipelago the largest financial centre in Latin America and the Caribbean?
A good summary of the role of the Cayman Islands as a tax haven. Hopefully that will start to change in 2020 after the UK Parliament passed a law imposing public registers of beneficial ownership […]
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