How the world sees Greece
The sorry story of Chris Correa, the St. Louis Cardinal executive convicted of hacking into the Houston Astros computer system expanded last month when Federal Judge Lynn Hughes unsealed details about the extent of the illegal conduct. As reported by David ...
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As the 60th anniversary of the EU’s Rome Treaty draws near, the bloc is struggling to redefine itself and move forward from a succession of crises, from banking, to migration, to Brexit. Meanwhile anti-corruption campaigners took to the streets in Romania. The EU’s struggle to find itself intensifies ahead of its 60th anniversary in March, […]
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Hot on the heels of Apple Tree Yard come The Replacement and Big Little Lies, featuring murderous school gate mothers and sinister maternity covers ‘Fear, that’s what makes animals of us all. Before I met you, I was civilised.” So said Dr Yvonne Carmichael in the BBC’s Sunday night drama _Apple Tree Yard_, contemplating her vertiginous descent from ordinary middle-aged working mother to adulterer, then rape victim, and finally murder suspect. But what the series, adapted from a 2013 novel by Louise Doughty, was asking us to consider is whether civilisation is only ever a thin veneer; whether the animal inside could be unleashed more easily than we might imagine, given the right circumstances. The idea of something primal, violent even, bubbling beneath maternal surfaces is hardly new, being a staple of everything from Greek tragedy to Shakespeare. Goading her husband into regicide, Lady Macbeth reaches for one of the few transgressions even more shocking to an Elizabethan audience, the idea of a mother murdering her own children: Continue reading...
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Peer criticises decision to axe scheme he fought to set up and says local authorities are still willing to accept more children Alf Dubs, who led the fight to secure sanctuary in the UK for refugee children, which resulted in the amendment in his name, has issued a direct appeal to the home secretary to reinstate the measure. Lord Dubs said the decision to axe the policy must be reversed to take in more children stranded in Europe. “The secretary of state’s announcement is a very bad letdown for some very vulnerable children in France, Greece and Italy,” he said. “Before this announcement was made they had a little bit of hope.” Continue reading...
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Debt-hit Greece is the only country in the EU that has seen its minimum wage fall over the last decade, new figures have revealed.
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on the EU's disintegration, and we discuss the future of cyberwarfare.
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The eurozone may be lurching towards another crisis of confidence as GREECE edges closer, once again, to a confrontation over progress towards ...
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