Observations

I’m really struggling on the blogging front at the moment. I have so much work to do – both in the office and in my ‘free’ time – that it’s extremely hard to get my thoughts in order to write anything significant about the EU at present. It also does...

Just a short post – I’ve been working from early until very late for the last couple of days, so the blog has suffered a bit, and I’m feeling quite shattered. Things should return more or less to normal over the coming few days. The good news is that I...

The US mid terms are around the corner, and the UK media has been working itself into a bit of a frenzy about all of it – well, it’s one of the few elections elsewhere conducted in English and there’s all that old rubbish about the special relationship, and Iraq...

I could not help laughing out loud when I discovered that today someone typed ‘fat people in bins‘ into Google and found my blog as the 5th ranked result! It’s actually a link to this post that I wrote when angry about being sat next to fat people in aircraft,...

I’m spending 36 hours in Brighton at a conference, hence why no profound analysis of EU politics has been posted here today! 🙂 In short, it’s annoying to be away from home, from Helena, and staying in a grim hotel that smells of cigarettes and cooked breakfasts. But on the...

You never know what you are going to get when you move into a new flat. But mushrooms growing on the kitchen floor is not something I was expecting when I moved to my new place in Walworth. The mushroom pictured – about 3cm high – is actually under the...

I’m now the wrong side of 25, have moved into a new flat to live with my girlfriend, and we have settled into a very domestic kind of life. The highlight of the week has been… the arrival of a new espresso machine (Gaggia Classic) courtesy of Helena’s parents. Once...

I’m in a state of complete confusion at the moment. I seem to be spending far too many hours each day doing something but not with any plan or with any discernable results. I pottered off to an Italian lesson this morning and had a decent debate about EU enlargement...

Via Claes and Helena, I’ve been asked to answer a bunch of questions about what my political views are and how I come to believe in what I believe in presently. So here goes… 1. Your political ideology? Socialism (or social democracy? – don’t necesarily believe in all the tenets...

It’s 23:09 on a Friday night and I am writing blog entries. Why? Because for some bizarre reason there have been a whole load of dogs barking in the near vicinity for the last hour that have been keeping me awake. The barking goes on and on and on, and...

For the second time in just over a fortnight, I have been on the wrong end of some petty criminality. Today the front wheel of my bike was stolen from just outside the offices where I work close to Victoria railway station in London. Someone whipped off the old wheel...