Observations

08.01.2007 Observations

Most Café Bar – nice bar, very odd cocktails

Well, it looked pleasant – the Most Café Bar is a new bar located in one of the stone arches under the southern end of Tower Bridge. Helena and I (and two others) were wandering there on Saturday, and decided

30.12.2006 Observations

Sad about the death of a tyrant

I went online this morning with the intention of writing a blog post about 2006 in politics. Yet the news on BBC that Saddam Hussein was executed today has entirely distracted me. How can we find ourselves in the situation

12.12.2006 Observations

Ultimate Christmas kitsch in Lisbon

Only now have I had the opportunity to download and do something with my pictures from the weekend in Lisbon and Porto after the PES Congress. Overall the Portuguese are a stylish bunch, but somehow they manage to let all

28.11.2006 Observations

Living life with professional passion

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

08.11.2006 Observations

Tired, but breathing dry air

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

02.11.2006 Observations

USA: sling a bit of mud

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

31.10.2006 Observations

Fat people in bins

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

19.10.2006 Observations

Joys of Brighton

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

12.10.2006 Observations

Growing mushrooms

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

06.10.2006 Observations

Getting all domestic

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

29.09.2006 Observations

Confused, and not very effective

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

28.09.2006 Observations

Political views challenge

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