As long as the Tories remain in power or the Lib Dems come to power, the case Assange is probably lost. A vote for Labour will be a vote to save Assange’s life. There should be a trial for rape in Sweden, but only if his safety is guaranteed – something one expects for any accused in a justice system.
Austerity
Robert Skidelsky: How austerity broke Britain – and how we can recover
After ten years of wrongheaded and brutal spending cuts, Keynes’s warning that bad economics produces political extremism is more important than ever. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Government goes missing in the European Union
What is wrong with Europe these days is its structures and cultures have combined to create dysfunctional responses from government to crises. Read here
Corruption
The Local: Spanish health minister resigns over ‘mastergate’ scandal
And still another one. Spain´s political class appears to be just as corrupt as the others in Europe. Germany lost a number of government ministers and politicians for plagiarism. One who plagiarised massively in her […]
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