NOTE: this post has been superseded by this one. However the post below has been left unedited – it is as it was on 11 October 2023! Yesterday a post popped up on my timeline on Twitter alternative Bluesky purporting to be from European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry […]
Change, it had to come We knew it all along We were liberated from the fold, that’s all And the world looks just the same And history ain’t changed […] We don’t get fooled again So the classic lines by The Who. Enjoy the full 8:33 of the song here. […]
When I was growing up you didn’t vacuum clean the house, you hoovered it. More recently, to google something was synonymous with the internet search engine. And – like it or not – Twitter had its whole own vocabulary synonymous with the service. “She tweeted it!” is a lot better […]
For years I have been fighting a losing battle with friends – trying to make them see that the choices of the tech they use should be similar to how they choose what food to buy, or how to travel – namely that there are ethical values bound up in […]
Back in the summer of 2011 I had a bit a tricky conundrum. I needed to get from Bow in East London to Camden in North London avoiding the riots that were happening at that time. And ideally I needed to make the trip by bike. And a community had […]
Out of the window of the train just north of Brussels you can see the poster pictured here – Niet panikeren, organiseren it says. Don’t panic, organise in English. The past few days a slightly alternative slogan has been on my mind. Don’t whine, organise! We’ve had Sarah Manavis writing for The New Statesman […]
Within a couple of days of each other The Economist and the FT have written pieces about how tensions in the governing coalition in Berlin are having an impact on EU policymaking. The central topic is Germany’s decision to oppose the phase out of internal combustion engine powered cars at […]
This blog has been running 17 years, and a good 14 of those the blog has been powered by WordPress. But in that time not only how I write has changed, but the way WordPress organises everything has changed a fair bit too. Back in 2008 I was coding the […]
On 14.2.2023 I moved all the transport posts from this blog to jonworth.eu, and all non-transport posts will stay here at Euroblog – and that now has a new URL euroblog.jonworth.eu All the redirects have been updated so as to mean there should not be any broken links!
I’ve realised that now I am no longer using Twitter, there is no systematic overview of all the flow diagrams I have made over the years. So this is a post looking back over all the things I have diagrammed, and why! Please click on any image below to load […]
Years ago I used to run a little parody account on Twitter. Nothing major, nothing dangerous – just gently joking about a European Commissioner. The bio even said it was a parody. And then, from one day to the next, the account disappeared. No warning. I contacted Twitter’s support to […]
So the results are in. The Tory Party took one hell of a beating in the North Shropshire by-election. And this coming on top of the many other scandals and headaches for Johnson’s government. All of this means a leadership challenge against Boris Johnson looks likely in the short to […]
