Britain’s Pro-Brexit Press: When in Doubt, Blame the Irish
Who’s to blame for the humiliating failure to reach a Brexit deal, according to the pro-Brexit faction of the British press? The Irish Taoiseach, or prime minister, Leo Varadkar, of course.
Washington Post’s Austerity Backer, Still Trying
The Washington Post’s Howard Schneider asks, “In Europe’s grand battle over growth vs. austerity, has Ireland proved that austerity works?” If so, keeping unemployment more than 10 percentage points above pre-recession levels is an odd sort of “working.”
Tom Friedman, Wrong About Another Thing
The Irish economy is in need of a $100 billion bailout, thanks in large part to the bursting of its housing bubble. But for years the Irish model was lionized by U.S. pundits. ThinkProgress blogger Matthew Yglesias digs up a 2005 piece by New York Times columnist Tom Friedman that said: There is a huge […]
