Then check out DocuTicker (with the obligatory ta to Metafilter) – “a daily update of new reports from government agencies, ngo’s, think tanks, and other groups.” Looks like a superb blogging resource, providing handy summaries of and links to various … Continue reading →

Let me know if I’m boring you… I just posted this as a comment to this post on EU Referendum. I ended up going on a bit, along the same lines as I did the other day… The pro-European campaign … Continue reading →

1,191 : 15,033 Isn’t liberation grand? If a similar ratio of liberating military to civilian deaths had been the case during the freeing of Europe in World War II, the total civilian dead on the continent would have been in … Continue reading →

Intense workloads have prevented me from posting about the questioning of the new EU Commissioners that is going on from now until 8th October. Updates on the hearings seem to be cropping up on EurActiv most of the time. The … Continue reading →

Despite my last post, the “yes” campaign has a long way to go. As long as we continue to bitch among ourselves, the stronger the “no” campaign will become. Although they may seem obvious to us, the benefits of closer … Continue reading →

The eurosceptic EU Referendum blog points me in the direction of The Foreign Policy Centre‘s website, and a pdf download entitled “The Referendum Battle”. It is, as EU Referendum points out, effectively a plan of attack for the “yes” campaign, … Continue reading →

The Guardian, Times and Independent all seem to have read more into Brown’s speech yesterday than was necessarily there. Is this the usual nonsense, or is there actually something going on? Guardian: Chancellor Swipes at Blair and Milburn Times: Turf … Continue reading →

A very good piece by Linda Colley on the US elections (as if there aren’t already enough pieces on the bloody things) in today’s Guardian which I’ve only just noticed. It says nothing particularly new, by it is a very … Continue reading →

The San Francisco Chronicle wins today’s best headline award, as well as the award for stating the bloody obvious. A majority of Europeans would prefer to see Bush lose in November? Well I never! Meanwhile, oil prices hit a record … Continue reading →

Well, the Labour membership have apparently managed to force a vote about the Iraq war at the conference, but this still doesn’t stop the party’s website clogging itself up with unintuitive design, little easily-accessible content, constant demands for money, and … Continue reading →

Well, well, well… Seems like the Chancellor’s all over the shop in the run-up to the Labour Conference. Following yesterday’s fluff-piece in the Guardian magazine, today Gordon Brown gets a surprsingly favourable interview in the pro-Tory Telegraph (registration required) and … Continue reading →

Kerry has pretty much ditched attempts to fight the election on the basis of domestic policy and is staking it all on ruining Bush’s credentials over foreign policy and the war on terror. So, will this work? The smart money … Continue reading →

Great profile/interview with Gordon Brown in today’s Guardian magazine – here. “When people talk about party politics it is almost purely in the sense of ambitions – who’s up, who’s down, who’s in, who’s out. But it would be outrageous … Continue reading →

Bad pun, sorry… But there seems to be a lot of interest over the possibility of Turkey joining the EU at the moment. Turkey should, I believe, at some stage become a full member of the EU. It is, after … Continue reading →