I was walking along Horse Guards Parade beside St James’s Park in London today and happened to notice some men chipping away at a new stone wall (pictured). It turns out that this is the construction of a memorial for the 202 victims of the 2002 Bali bombs, 28 of […]
Everyone criticises it, but how much do we really know about the Common Agricultural Policy? Now there’s no excuse – have a look at farmsubsidy.org, an excellent collaborative website about who gets what, and which countries just refuse to release any data. While CAP is not really my main field […]
150 protestors have been injured in clashes over the last 24 hours in Hungary in light of a leaked tape of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany in which he stated that Hungarian politicians had been lying to the population over the economic situation in the country [Guardian article here]. Some have […]
Excellent news today – oneseat.eu has passed the 1 million signature barrier! This will not have a direct impact straight away, but it will at least act as a decent tool in the armoury of those that are calling for the abolishment of the Strasbourg seat of the European Parliament. […]
Aside from the issue of party leadership that I have written about here, what else can we learn from the Swedish election campaign – for the sake of the future of the Swedish Social Democrats, and for Labour too? Beyond any debate that may arise here, this will be the […]
Spending the last 4 days of the Swedish election campaign in Stockholm with the Social Democrats has been an eye-opening experience. The stark realisation – starting on Saturday (the day before Sunday’s poll – result here, and here (Swedish official results)) that actually they were going to lose, was the […]
It has been somewhat surprising to discover this morning that my blog has been ranked number 10 in Iain Dale’s Top 100 Labour Blogs – see his blog here. His guide to political blogging will be distributed at this autumn’s party conferences – could be quite useful! But why me? […]
I’m currently in the middle of moving to a new flat – all my furniture moves tomorrow, and I’ll only move sometime next week – due to British Gas! It has been impossible to get all the certificates and checks complete on time, and the landlord will not let me […]
Two weekends, two election campaigns: I’ve been in Berlin this weekend and they are in the middle of a campaign for the Berliner Landtag, the state parliament. While I found the campaigning methods in Sweden last week quite fun and progressive, the efforts at promoting the elections in Berlin strike […]
For someone renowned for having decent political antennae, Tony Blair really seems to have lost it with regard to his future. His response today to ongoing speculation about how long he will stay as Prime Minister has been to say, well, it’s not me speculating – The Guardian here. I’m […]
It looks like the inevitable will happen – the UK government will impose restrictions on freedom of movement for Romanians and Bulgarians once those countries join the EU in 2007 – news from The Guardian here. There’s much smoke and little fire in this debate, and it really infuriates me.
There’s been plenty of talk, and now we are ready to go with a number of events from the Labour Movement for Europe this autumn. The main series of events is entitled EUROPA-Soirée – a get together each month in The Ship & Shovell pub close to Charing Cross, with […]
