Angela Merkel has the whip hand in an orgy of austerity

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Angela Merkel has the whip hand in an orgy of austerity

The notion that economic pain is the only route to pleasure was once the preserve of the British public school-educated elite, now it’s European economic policyThe novelist and polymath Anthony Burgess published a selection of book reviews and essays in the 1980s called Homage to QWERT YUIOP. One of the pieces was called The Whip and in it Burgess discussed le vice Anglais, the derisory term given by the French to the masochistic sexual preferences of upper-class Brits.