No tax please, we're Greeks! Nepotism and corruption in Greece...

A good friend of mine bent my ear with a vengeance on the day the Greek government cranked up its austerity programme another notch.

"My husband is thinking of writing the word vlacha on his forehead in very big letters," she said.

Vlacha means stupid.

Her husband's name is Stelios and he is anything but a stupid man.

Stelios is a leading cancer specialist whose dedication to saving lives is such that he rarely takes time off, or holidays.

But he has come to the conclusion that he is stupid because he has been honest. More...

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