The Politics Of Fear

“I’m getting increasingly worried about the free movement of people across Europe. It’s a very competitive world out there and my constituents resent that.”

— Huddersfield Labour MP Barry Sheerman, defending comments he made on Twitter about Eastern European workers.

It was quite fitting that in a week that saw [...]

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Curious, Political George

As I discussed before in “Curious, Duplicitous George,” it’s all about politics for George Papandreou. That is, he is a politician and they tend to want to hold on to power. Papandreou’s socialist PASOK party leads a tenuous coalition which started to unravel after he made the deal with the eurozone leaders on a bailout package for [...]

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