-
Worth keeping an eye on this weekend…
-
Again – with some handy graphics this time
-
Brown’s meeting with Sarkozy – and lack of meetings with anyone from the Brussels-based EU machine
-
How the poor Tory showing at the recent by-elections could cause far wider problems
-
The BBC’s Mark Mardell’s latest dispatch on the eve of the Turkish elections. Intriguing.
-
Another good roundup / overview from EurActiv
-
A nice handy overview from the Economist’s Edward Lucas that explains just why I don’t buy in to Berezovsky’s spiel, and mistrust Litvinenko’s allegations by association
-
Via Daniel Hannan (MEP) at the Telegraph
What do you, as an atheist and Europhile especially, think about islamist government of Turkey if it is (just barely) the will of the people?
I don’t really know enough about the AKP to form a decent opinion, so take the following with a pinch of salt – but despite my dislike of all religions, I’d prefer a religious internationalist party to a secular nationalist party pretty much any day.
From what I can tell, the use of “Islamist” in the context of the AKP is a bit of a misnomer anyway, considering the associations the term has adopted over the last few years – and I wouldn’t be too surprised if sections of the western media had been using the suffix “ist” rather than “ic” purely to scare everyone.
It has some nutty, hard-core religious supporters, undoubtedly – but you can’t judge a party by its most extreme supporters. If you could, in the UK Labour would be a bunch of Stalinists and the Tories borderline fascists.