'Given that Macron is doing what he said he’d do, and his reforms seem to be working, it’s not surprising he’s on course for re-election' | ✍️ Emma Duncan
Emma Duncanerived from an insult flung by Tsar Nicholas I at the collapsing Ottoman empire, the label “sick man of Europe” has done the rounds. In the 1970s, the grisly combination of inflation, stagnation and militant unions known as the “British disease” earned us the title. We were doing so badly that membership of the European Union was seen as a way of dragging us up to our neighbours’ level.
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