Category: Europe

“The Right to Indifference”?

“The Right to indifference” — is how the French daily Libération‘s editor Laurent Joffrin interprets the results of a recent poll which, he says, proves wrong both the far-right (& their spectre of imminent...

Tariq Ali on Greece

Diary Tariq Ali LRB July 2015 In the early hours of 16 July, the Greek parliament voted overwhelmingly to give up its sovereignty and become a semi-colonial appendage of the EU. A majority of...

Europe, A Poem?

Just back from Europe — where the elections for the European Parliament are heating up  — though “heat” may be the wrong image to conjure, or seems only appropriate for the most rightwing fascoid...