Iain Macwhirter reflects upon the importance of Scotland’s Independence Referendum of 2014 for Scottish democracy. The current policy of the Spanish government with regard to the Catalan referendum has nothing to do with today’s Europe.
EU politics
Times of Malta: Aquarius’ future is all at sea as Panama revokes ship’s flag
Another EU success story. Let us, in the name of European Union ideals, let thousands of people drown. Read here
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot: Who’s the world’s leading eco-vandal? It’s Angela Merkel
From the Guardian Monbiot at his usual best. This is the sort of stuff that mainstream media in its efforts to create a great European stateswoman does not bring. Read here
Finance
Simon Wren-Lewis – Economists: too much ideology, too little craft
For all its claims of being a science, Wren-Lewis, borrowing from Dani Rodrik, sees economics also as a craft: ” If you do not apply the craft well, then what can replace it is ideology, […]
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