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.
Austerity
Chris Dillow: The persistence of fiscal stupidity
The United Kingdom continues its destructive policy of austerity under the guise of “Every household knows you cannot spend what you do not have”. As so many critics have pointed out, there were hundreds of […]
EU politics
Politico – Romania: Liviu Dragnea, Brussels’ oncoming ‘illiberal’ headache
The analysis is wrong. The EU is breeding such populists in the former East Block nations. They successfully enforce the neo-liberal policy of the EU, which, as in Southern Europe, is pushing much of the […]
EU politics
NEWS9: 350,000 separatists rally in Barcelona for release of prisoners
Hundreds of thousands in the restive region of Catalonia have protested in Barcelona on Saturday (local time) against the imprisonment of nine separatist leaders for their roles in an illegal 2017 secession bid. Read here
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