by David Week on 15 February 2016
Yesterday, I listened to an interview with Katrin Flikschuh of the London School of Economics. Brilliant. Wonderful. It was as if a door opened on a new universe. I’ve been working in international development since 1978. In the late 1980s I began to realise that there was something amiss in our standard cultural understanding of […]
by David Week on 10 July 2015
I read today that “Greece debt crisis: Athens accepts harsh austerity as bailout deal nears“. And we see everywhere discourse about whose at fault: the Greeks, the Germans, the EU, the IMF, the bondholders, I think the proverbial elephant in the room is this: “collective punishment.” The Greek government lied about the state of their […]