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
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Kid dies in sand dunes, signs the solution – get real
It was nasty accident. Some teenagers were digging tunnels in sand dunes in West Wales, one of them was in the tunnel, it collapsed, and the boy died. The coroner in the case has suggested that signs be put at
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A Welsh waste of time
So Welsh has been used for the first time in a meeting of the Council of the EU today. Woo hoo. Let’s all jump up and down and beat the nationalist drum! Ordovicius is happy and Alun Ffred Jones who
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A free curvy cucumber for every child
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
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Robert Evans MEP to stand down
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
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The most intricate calendar sharing system possible
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
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This meat need not exist (the case for non-radical vegetarianism)
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
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The Generation Y Service Effect
I’ve not been having the best of times with technology recently: My internet connection at home keeps failing, and the service centre cannot help me out The modem router I’m obliged to use for my internet connection is supposed to
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Facebook strategy for organisations
I’m a human, so I want to be friends with humans on Facebook. I think I’m probably not alone on this. Yet what should an organisation do if it wants to establish a Facebook presence? Increasingly organisations of which I
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3G – surf anywhere, or not?
I’m sat in a café on Upper Street in Islington trying to blog. I’m ‘connected’ to the internet with a newly purchased Option Icon 225 USB dongle, connecting with Orange 3G. Only the pace here is slooooow, despite a signal
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I’m a nasty, lazy individual, get me out of Brussels (and other EU sillyness)
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
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The world according to DB (with apologies to the atheist bus campaign)
Inspired by my previous blog entry, and the atheist bus campaign. Time for a new web campaign – save the night train?
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