Reheating the past

Reports concerning an attack on Tuesday by a group of protesting taxi drivers against an individual suspected of offering Uber services were shocking. That said, the incident was somewhat less shocking than some of the events we witnessed in the early 1990s, when former employees of the Urban Bus Company ran riot through central Athens, insulting, beating and tearing the clothes off the back of anyone who had the gall to apply for a license to drive a commuter bus in the new company founded by the government of Constantinos Mitsotakis called Transport Businesses.

The image of men wrapped in bedsheets to hide their nudity is hard to erase from memory - as it should be.

Like then, the recent "uprising" was instigated by one man, a union leader, who has threatened that if legislation restricting the operation of services like Uber is not implemented, then taxi drivers ...