Yanis Varoufakis: A lost decade, foretold

A street actor walks trough the almost empty Palace Square amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic in St Petersburg, Russia. Picture: AP/Dmitri Lovetsky

Many on the left still cling to the hope that the Covid-19 crisis will translate into the use of state power on behalf of the powerless. But they are to be left disappointed, writes Yanis Varoufakis

To exorcise my worst fears about the coming decade, I chose to write a bleak chronicle of it.