Nov 22, 2018 at 8:47 AM | tomo
Nov 22, 2018 at 8:42 AM | Mark Hodgson

Macron may be rattled, but once some of his coalition partners lose faith in him, fissures will appear.

For farmers and others living and working within the rural areas and economy, this is the time of year when they normally have time to spare.

IF they were organised, a bit of co-ordinated gridlock leading up to COP 24, would show how disunited protests can be, and how slanted media coverage can be, as others try to gridlock London, about freedom of choice and state enforcement of "choice".

michael, I tried to persuade an american student that despite having less than her richer friends, on a historic or even gobal scale she was rich. Kids should have lessons on appreciating what they've got - from central heating (truly warm with no indoor pollution or messy lighting to worry about) to supermarkets (selling cheap fruits and foodstuffs that would have been unknown or worth a fortune in the past) to flying (what would that have been worth to Richard III?) to medicine. Dork abitrarily picks a point in the past and romanticizes it. Growing your own food, which most people had to, was hard, boring and precarious. His chosen era was wracked by the plague and warfare (eg 100 years war, Peasants Revolt). But apart from that the people really had it good...

This morning the BBC Breakfast team were wittering on with recycling, including a house filled with reused materials - most of them highly flammable. Sigh.

Nov 21, 2018 at 10:16 PM | stewgreen
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Nigel Farage exposes May’s duplicity

"French leaders mobilize against motorist protesters
Ministers launch media offensive in bid to change public opinion on activist movement."

https://www.politico.eu/article/french-leaders-mobilize-against-motorist-protesters/

Looks like Macron's rattled!

tomo, despite everything, Varoufakis is in favour of the EU, though of course he would seek to change it for the better. But even he understands full well what is going on over Brexit, having seen it all before when the EU stamped on Greek democracy. And at least he respects the will of the people, unlike our remainer establishment.

Varoufakis isn't everyone's cup of tea, but he's a highly intelligent man, who writes English like a native (having spent much of his time in English-speaking countries) and his books are highly readable. I've read several of them, and recommend them to one and all.