Normally, Philip Alston spends his time in the developing world. But the United Nations expert on extreme poverty sees Britain as the ideal test case of the effects of “self-imposed austerity.”
Author: PATRICK KINGSLEY
Portugal Dispatch: This Town Once Feared the 10-Story Waves. Then the Extreme Surfers Showed Up.
The residents of Nazaré used to think the immense waves that broke against town’s cliffs were deadly to any who braved them. Today, those same waves have made the town a surfers’ mecca.