I’ve been reading ‘Britain and Europe: A City minister’s perspective’ by Ed Balls MP [more details from the CER]. It all strikes me as reasonably standard Brownite fare – realising that Britain has to be part of the EU, but not really enthusing about the European Union all that much. […]
So it’s almost decision time. Ballot papers for the Deputy Leadership are being sent out and all members should get them by the end of the week. It’s with some mixed feelings that this decision time approaches – the Deputy Leadership election has been the catalyst for some decent debate […]
Every Presidency has to have its logo. But it seems that ideas are running a bit thin. Finland, for its 2006 EU Presidency, choose the rather graceful logo pictured at the top. Germany, for its ongoing 2007 G8 Presidency has the logo below it. Bit too much of a resemblance? […]
Every London cyclist must have experienced it. The revving of a small commercial vehicle engine behind you and – whooosh – a red Royal Mail LDV van powers past. Like more passionate versions of White Van Man, Royal Mail drivers also seem to like to wrap their vans around lamp […]
A new cabinet team will be in place by the summer, and there’s one major question of constitutional reform currently in limbo – reform of the House of Lords. Some enterprising Labour supporters have hence established a campaign site – Campaign for a Democratic Upper House – to gather support […]
The work to change this blog and website has now been completed. The changes are as follows: The main address is now www.jonworth.eu and the homepage contains information rather than blog entries blog.jonworth.eu remains the domain name for the blog, and all old links to that address still work A […]
The Commission wants to liven up EU party politics. One of the solutions is to create EU-wide political foundations that can organise debates about the main political issues – see EUObserver. There might be some budget available for these foundations, around 1 million Euro a year according to the article. […]
So the banana is the best example of intelligent design? Well, there’s a bit of a debate about that at YouTube. This is the original video: And this is a hilarious riposte to it (wait for the pineapple) Thanks to my mum for the tip who was listening to Steve […]
On the very same day (16 May) as his inauguration, Nicolas Sarkozy went to visit Angela Merkel in Berlin to affirm the importance of the Franco-German axis in driving European integration. On 23 May he was in Brussels, talking to Barroso, the Commission President. Next week (31 May) he’s off […]
The Labour Deputy Leadership race is all there really is in UK politics at the moment when it comes to using the internet for political campaigning. But there are a couple of developments that I really wonder about. Firstly is how the candidates are using Facebook, or more precisely, their […]
Farmed animals produce more greenhouse gas emissions (18%) than the world’s entire transport system (13.5%). That’s according to the campaign website of National Vegetarian Week (thanks Mary for the tip) who cite rotting manure as the main cause. I’m not sure how they have calculated that figure, but the global […]
What do you do if mobile phone firms are fleecing customers when they use their mobile phones abroad? The EU’s answer has been to cap mobile phone roaming charges. As someone who uses a mobile phone a little in general, but (proportionately speaking) a lot abroad, I’ve been hit by […]
