It’s been a brute of a day. It’s 3am and I’m still working… Why? A website hosting firm hit the wall, sending a dozen sites I’ve worked on in the past offline. OK, I don’t have contractual arrangements for these sites, but I do have moral obligations. So what do […]
How are you supposed to find out what’s going on in the EU? It’s a damned hard task: byzantine procedures and a multitude of complex websites. So it was sad today to read that one of the only websites dedicated to this task – IPPRO MEP – is suffering financial […]
So the Belgian Minister of Defense wants to go an get pissed in New York at the expense of the state, travelling there for a meeting that was not actually due to happen. As far as I’m concerned that’s not acceptable behaviour. Problem for him, advantage for the rest of […]
Are you sick of having a useless and smug President of the European Commission? Someone that has stood by as 3 countries have voted No in referendums on EU questions? Think it’s time for a bit of democracy to determine how the head of Europe’s executive is selected? Well essentially […]
Who says EU policies are not joined up? Last week the European Commission cheerfully announced it was abandoning standards for 26 different types of fruit and vegetables. Commissioner for Agriculture Mariann Fischer Boel heralded “a new dawn for the curvy cucumber and the knobbly carrot”. Finally one of the myths […]
It has taken me a while to notice the news, but London MEP Robert Evans is the latest to announce that he will not be standing at the next election. More can be found at Mary Honeyball’s blog. I’m sad to see Robert leave the EP – he has always […]
There’s a phrase in Swedish – a dagens ilandsproblem – which means a problem so modern and bourgeois that only people in developed societies are confronted with it, and even posing it as a problem is rather, well, laughable. But that is essentially the issue that has been bugging me […]
An article in yesterday’s Observer caught my eye – the argument that the UK needs a boom in its production of fruit and veg for a multitude of reasons, notably to reduce reliance on oil derivative fertilisers and the need to combat climate change. Reading the article further underlined my […]
Following the dishonourable steps of George Galloway MP on Celebrity Big Brother, and Ashley Mote MEP who went one step further by actually being imprisoned in a real jail, mad and tanned ex-celebrity and MEP Robert Kilroy Silk is to appear on the ITV show I’m A Celebrity Get Me […]
Inspired by my previous blog entry, and the atheist bus campaign. Time for a new web campaign – save the night train?
I’ve been taking it for years – the DB / City Night Line train from Brussels to Berlin / Hamburg but from the December timetable change the line no longer exists (see the routes PDF here). The train starts in Paris and will take a new route completely by-passing Belgium […]
I’ve just beens sent this link to a website entitled Icelanders are NOT terrorists. The Icelander who informed me is a friend and political contact – Eirikur Bergmann Einarsson – who has been mounting a one man defence of his country in the UK press. So what do I make […]
