A decade of austerity shredded public services and left millions of workers on the brink. It would be hard to imagine a policy more destructive to our capacity to respond to the coronavirus crisis.
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EU politics
Vanessa Beeley: Bordeaux: Gilets Jaunes, Acte XXV, Militarization of French Security Forces
My full conversation with a French police officer yesterday during Acte XXV of the #GiletsJaunes protests. 25 weeks of state sanctioned violence and savagery. Thankfully, yesterday was relatively quiet and ended without any major tension […]
Economics
Chris Dillow: The full employment question
“Never mind the public finances. Look after the economy and the deficit will look after itself.” For years, critics of George Osborne such as me echoed Keynes’ old line. At last, the Tories are, by […]
Austerity
Jean-Luc Mélenchon – Europe must abandon these foolish Brussels treaties
Emmanuel Macron’s vision of the continent’s future fails to address the most urgent problems facing Europeans today Read here
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