
A Job Is No Longer a Promise
Europe still tells people to work hard and build a life. It must be honest about how much of that life work can now buy.
News tells us what happened. Opinion asks what it means, who it touches and what we might do next. A column by Ilhan Irem Yuce.
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From public power to private joy. Each subject has room to grow.
An argument can be firm without pretending to be the final word.

Europe still tells people to work hard and build a life. It must be honest about how much of that life work can now buy.

My favourites do not walk alike. That is precisely why I watch them.

I remember Gezi. I will not pretend to know where today’s European protests lead. But I recognise the danger of treating a crowd as the whole story.

A newspaper should make room for the parts of life that are worth protecting, not only the things that threaten them.

Our private lives do not sit outside politics and economics. They are where the consequences arrive.

Loving a country is not the same as agreeing to be quiet about what daily life costs.
“I use AI to build. I also believe we have to ask what that building does to the people whose work gives society its meaning.”
Ilhan Irem Yuce · Editor-in-Chief