By Jonathan Power November 12, 2018 Is Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, responsible for Brexit? In a way yes she is because at the time of the great economic crisis of 2007-2013, counterproductively she insisted on austerity throughout the European Union. Austerity helped turn the poorer classes of the UK towards Brexit. But so […]
By Edmund Fawcett Originally published by Open Democracy on April 7, 2018 here on Unlike the hard right I have not conjured up an imaginary Other, but identified a genuine adversary in a struggle over democratic liberalism that is already engaged. 28 March 2018, Germany, Berlin: Olaf Scholz, Federal Minister of Finance (SPD), […]
Jeremy Corbyn June 2017 (Image by Jeremy Corbyn Facebook) By Silvia Swinden A Russian father, former double spy convicted in Russia and exchanged by Britain for other spies, and his daughter were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury. Preliminary assessment suggests a nerve gas agent. The government has jumped to accuse Russia and […]
