The original blog: commentary about everything except transport
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 –
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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,
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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How do you navigate around the wide variety of online communities in existence? Well, you need a map. Click the image above to see the full size version. It’s an excellent graphical representation (initially from here) of how different online
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So that’s it. Today is the last day my Young Persons Railcard is valid (yes, they don’t know how to use apostrophes). Purchased the day before my 26th birthday last year, today marks the final day of more than 8
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This blog has been a bit silent over the last week, but that does not mean that life has been quiet. In fact it has been one of the most vital weeks for me in recent times – I have
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I was pleased to read yesterday that John McDonnell will be the challenger from the left of the Labour Party, facing Gordon Brown. John has conducted his campaign with a solid and gentlemanly approach, far different to Michael Meacher who
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