Blair’s legacy: flogging weapons to dictators Nice one, Tony! (tags: Britain) German political blog carnival launched My German doesn’t stretch beyond asking directions, but sounds promising (tags: Germany) “Cette gouvernance politique n’est ni démocratie, ni puissance” The EU’s past high … Continue reading →

Levinas’ Challenge to the Modern European Identity: Part 1 Note to selt: to be read at some point when I have more time. Looks promising (tags: Europe) Levinas’ Challenge to the Modern European Identity: Part 2 And again (tags: Europe) … Continue reading →

Cyber-stalking psycho alert Rachel’s nutter has got nuttier – and gone on the run (tags: Blogs) The unbearable statism of Tories Good stuff on Cameron and education policy (tags: Britain Conservatives) Blair’s final stab at civil liberties A nice overview … Continue reading →

Help charities raise money via a search engine I like this idea. A lot. (tags: Web) Tony Blair and Europe So, what has the most pro-EU British Prime Minister since Heath actually achieved in his ten years in office? (tags: … Continue reading →

Sarkozy backs scaled-down EU treaty Which, after Prodi’s comments the other day, means yet more deadlock (tags: France EU) Iceland to join the EU? Current internal opposition makes it unlikely, but they are at least looking into it again (tags: … Continue reading →

Prodi advocates a multi-speed Europe Yay for Prodi! Now we just need the other 26 member states to agree… (tags: Italy EU) The eurosceptic spin on the Prodi story Not “proposal for pro-EU countries to leave less enthusiastic ones alone”, … Continue reading →

Litvinenko murder suspect named Political fears didn’t put them off, it seems (though it’s neither Berezovsky nor Putin, unsurprisingly) (tags: Russia) Full CPS statement on Litvinenko killing Statement by Sir Ken Macdonald, QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, on charging … Continue reading →

The Mail distorting the truth shocker! Tim Worstall on the Mail’s ridiculous, potentially career-ending attack on tip-top blogger Owen Barder: misrepresentation and out-of-context quotes to shame a 6th form polemicist (tags: Media Blogs) Montenegro: one year on A year after … Continue reading →

France’s new Foreign Minister A profile of Bernard Kouchner (tags: France) The Stasi on Our Minds Cold War revisionism and the banality of the secret police (tags: Germany History) Another profile of Kouchner Expect a lot of these – he’s … Continue reading →

What’s the difference between Belarus and Zimbabwe? It’s a genuine question – the UN’s reject Belarus for a seat on the human rights panel, but allowed Zimbabwe to chair the sustainable development group? Eh? (tags: Belarus UN Africa) Turkey not … Continue reading →

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (Only a bit more Scottish). Yep, it’s Prime Minister Brown… (tags: Britain Labour) More on the proposed EU opt-outs for the UK Hurrah! EU Referendum finally seems to be covering the … Continue reading →