August 6, 2007

A Fistful Of Euros

Christopher Caldwell: Untrustworthy on Facts

by Alex Harrowell

Christopher Caldwell, senior editor of neocon house journal the Weekly Standard, once wrote a six-page feature in the New York Times magazine in which he claimed that Robert Kilroy-Silk would “transform European politics”. Despite this, he is still taken seriously by some people; disturbingly, this includes the editors of the Financial Times. In his column [...]

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April 16, 2007

France

Circular Logic Watch

by Alex Harrowell

The Independent’s John Lichfield, writing about Nicolas Sarkozy:
His ideas are based on two simple but accurate diagnoses of France’s economic decline in the past 30 years.
First, France does not work enough. Young people enter the workforce late; experienced people retire early; the standard working week is now just 35 hours. France works an average of [...]

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