I’m quite angry today as I am in that odd situation of knowing a lot more about a news story than is presented in the media coverage. The matter concerns beef. Yes, I am a vegetarian, but I have had the fun of discussing the beef ban with the French […]
I happened to see the last 15 minutes of a scary programme The New Fundamentalists on Channel 4 yesterday evening. An article from Channel 4’s website about the programme is here. The programme specifically focussed on 3 schools in the North East of England that have been created under the […]
I came across this excellent little quote via the National Secular Society: I would rather people went to their allotment on a Sunday than to church – it would do them and everybody else a lot more good. The quote relates to an interesting little story where the Church of […]
This map is the ClustrMap from today for this website – too see the latest one, click the small map at the bottom of any page. I have to say I am getting quite confused by the geographic balance of the visitors to this website… This blog is about EU […]
I normally dislike The Local, the only news service on the internet in English about Sweden. It tends to have a highly cynical, Daily Mail style take on Sweden and the social model – plenty of ex-pats who don’t like Systembolaget having a rant. However, this week they have really […]
So there it is in the picture: the Berlaymont building of the European Commission. Grand headquarters of the supranational executive, fledgling European government… Ah, well, seems I am dreaming in more ways than one. I spent all of yesterday afternoon at a seminar that was supposed to equip me with […]
The Party of European Socialists are running a decent online petition against human trafficking during the World Cup. They are urging EU member states, and specifically Barroso to lead the initiative, to do something to stop the problems with football fans’ vulgar need to buy women. So spent a few […]
We hear the phrase all the time “We need to bring Europe closer to its citizens” – or variations of it. I’ve had quite a guts full of those trite words in the last couple of days as I have been typing up the verbatim minutes of the Sound of […]
It’s been a big thing in the UK today: in some parts of South Eastern England the installation of water meters might become compulsuory. About time too! I can’t understand what all the fuss is about. It’s inherently sensible: the UK’s water supply situation is untenable, this winter has been […]
The old saying goes that you wait ages for a bus, and then 3 of them turn up at once. The same is true for my website work it seems – having not launched any sites for a while, I have managed to launch 3 in a week! A few […]
This blog has been a bit quiet recently, thanks in large part due to a stupidly large amount of website work and server admin tasks I’ve been doing. I am hence very content to be able to announce the launch of 2 new websites, both Labour Party related. The first […]
You’ve heard or seen it before. Those adverts for cars or other expensive products offering you finance plans to spread the payment over affordable monthly installments. But the advert I was confronted with when boarding a Northern Line tube train this evening was an entriely different matter: a monthly installments […]
