I have been doing a lot of heavy programming work recently but stumbled across Agenturblog and suddenly started thinking a bit more creatively. My own blog is – after all – quite dour, and is far from being the most pleasant website I have ever created. I then let my […]
An interesting debate is brewing over at Bloggers4Labour about a Guardian column by Bill Rammell and Liam Byrne, and a response to that column by Jon Cruddas. The essence of the debate is that Byrne and Rammell state that Labour must continue a relentless pursuit of gaining the support of […]
Harriet Harman’s blog and new website went live this morning. I’ve done the work to design and implement the site from scratch (all on a voluntary basis), with considerable help from Helena. The blog will hopefully generate plenty of discussion, while the website be constantly updated with the latest campaign […]
There are not too many readers of this blog that will know Stanley Handcock, my great uncle. Some of the people who attended the Strasbourg Congress of JEF in October 2005 might recall that he was the unknown federalist I mentioned in my parting speech. It has always been immensely […]
I’ve resisted a long time, but at Jeremy’s insistence I am now a member of Facebook, and what a strange kind of a system it is. I don’t think that even John Reid could have managed to muster up a better means of social surveillance than that system – quite […]
I’ve written before about the useless housing association – Pathmeads – that is my landlord here in Walworth. It has taken until today for them to ‘repair’ the problem of damp in the corner of the bedroom due to a leaking washing machine in the kitchen. So what have they […]
It’s a new year, and it’s time for another EUROPA-Soirée in the LME-LSE series (details here). This month we are talking about what Labour can learn from Ségolène Royal and her bid to become French President. Beyond that, the PS has managed a massive recruitment drive, and is at the […]
OK, so you have a computer (well, you would not be reading this if you didn’t), and you want an excellent and cheap hi-fi setup. How do you do it? My answer was to purchase some JBL Creature speakers in the January sales for £35 at Comet, and add a […]
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 to stop for a cocktail. The atmosphere in the bar […]
He’s had a rant at Commission officials, and then been caught naked on a beach with his chef de cabinet, and yesterday European Commission Vice President Guenter Verheugen was at it again – this time stating that: “A small member state would benefit more from providing a deputy commissioner in […]
In a few hours Romania and Bulgaria will become member states of the European Union, and I am very proud and happy about that. I can still remember so clearly being stuck on a train at the border between Lokoshaza and Arad (Hungary to Romania) in 1999 and realising how […]
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 where we have invested so much time and energy in […]
