Britain’s Austerity TrapWhy is one of the world’s richest countries still behaving like it’s broke?In this episode of Explaining History, we dive into Yanis Varoufakis’s searing critique of Britain’s ongoing austerity dilemma under the new Labour government. Despite hopes for change, Chancellor Rachel Reeves faces the same iron cage of fiscal rules, banker subsidies, and Treasury orthodoxy that has strangled public spending for decades.We unpack the hidden costs of so-called “zombie austerity,”
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