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 although we left around 6pm and I cannot speak for anything that flared up after that.
EU politics
Common Space: New report urges focus on causes of Brexit in ‘dysfunctional’ Britain
Leftwing thinktank warns that unaddressed problems of regional under-development, economic inequality and political alienation will create more crises like Brexit Read here
Deregulation
Jacobin: Saving France’s Railways
An interview with Bruno Poncet Yesterday, French rail workers kicked off months of rolling strikes against Macron’s attacks on their working conditions. Read here
Climate Crisis
CNN: Portugal’s power production goes coal-free long before deadline
Portugal has gone entirely coal-free, 9 years ahead of the country’s initial deadline to phase out coal, the planet’s most polluting fossil fuel. Read here Wikimedia Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Internationa
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