The plan to tackle the eurozone crisis will only render ordinary people more powerless.
Protesters in Athens demonstrate against German plans for their economy Photo: EPA/ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU
Democracy went down in a blaze of glory last week. Both the German Bundestag and our own House of Commons put up one hell of a fight against the dying of the light. Maybe history will record that fact in an elegy on the demise of the great 18th-century experiment in government by the people: they were eloquent to the end. Because at the end, eloquence was all they had. (read more)
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