Yanis Varoufakis

Labour’s manifesto promises to transform Britain. Why are the middle classes so hostile to it?

Yanis Varoufakis / December 12, 2019 / 4 min readSyndicated

What are we to make of a political class that proclaims its ethical commitments but that cannot bring itself to endorse the only concrete actions that would honour them? As John von Neumann, the great mathematician turned Cold War warrior, once said of J Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, “some people profess the guilt to claim credit for the sin.”

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