‘There’s no such thing as democracy’: Yanis Varoufakis | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
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‘There’s no such thing as democracy’: Yanis Varoufakis | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 3, 202652 min
  • Interview
  • Politics

Who is really in charge – the people or the markets? In the first episode of Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian, senior economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty speaks to the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis about what it was like during the eurozone crisis when he went head to head with those who wanted to stop his reforms. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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This is The Guardian. Politics Weekly feed for more episodes. When I was listening to you, I had a terrible feeling. Gone.

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I miss Thatcher. Who's really in charge? You and me, the voters. Or the bomb markets?

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Pretty much every centre-left politician across the west, from Andy Burnham to Zora Mamdani, has a version of this question hanging over them. How long do you think it will be before Andy Burnham is pushed aside

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