George Osborne talks tough but acts like a Labour chancellor | Simon Jenkins

Despite the claims to austerity, Britain has seen nothing to compare with the cuts imposed on the Greeks or Spaniards

Is George Osborne genius or monster? Is he godsend or Satan? When he said on Monday that Britain must take another £25bn in "cuts", half of them from welfare, was he declaring a manifest truth or peddling a tissue of electioneering mendacity? The trouble is the answer must be one thing or the other. It will depend not on the answer but the answerer, on tribal membership. There...