Day: 12 March 2025

If crises are the test of a nation, Western Europe is failing

The financial crisis and the pandemic have shown how Western Europe deals with crises. And it’s not pretty, writes Paul Ormerod Karl Marx certainly had the ability to encapsulate a complex phenomenon in a pithy and memorable paragraph.   In a pamphlet on the Crimean War of the 1850s he wrote: “The redeeming feature of war […]