Looking back it was a pretty good dozen years in many ways. From when I started using Twitter for EU political purposes early in 2009 until it all started to go wrong throughout 2022 I managed to achieve a hell
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WordPress spring cleaning – especially Media files
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
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Transport posts moved to a separate website
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
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Turning any complicated process into a flow diagram
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,
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Twitter: exit. Because you have no voice to change it, and Musk does not deserve your loyalty.
I’m not going to get into a discussion about whether what Musk is doing to Twitter is by accident or by design. All I know is that Twitter is, at the time of writing, a network I no longer want
Continue readingFrom foreboding to a glimmer of hope in a week – the switch to Mastodon is on
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,
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Runners and riders to succeed Boris Johnson as Tory Leader (and Prime Minister)
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
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Labour: a new relationship with the EU
An excellent Twitter thread by Alistair King caught my attention yesterday, critiquing Keir Starmer’s supposed new slogan “make Brexit work”. Meanwhile Andrew Adonis summed it up visually with this: https://x.com/Andrew_Adonis/status/1457305792810557440 Aside from the snarky tweet, there is a nugget of
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#BTW21Diagramm Possible Coalitions after the 26th September 2021 Bundestag Election / Mögliche Koalitionen nach der Bundestagswahl am 26. September 2021
High resolution PDF and PNG files, the draw.io XML and the .ods files of the workings are all available here! Hochauflösende PDF- und PNG-Dateien, draw.io-XML und die .ods-Dateien sind hier verfügbar! Version 1.0.0 EN – 05.09.2021, 18:00 The first
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For now, the EU doesn’t have to care about what Brits think of it
This tweet caught my eye this morning: https://x.com/anandMenon1/status/1422097638904762368 My first reaction: why would the EU even care? My second reaction: even if the EU did care, there is nothing the EU can really do about this anyway. And also then,
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Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, and the accountability inversion
What two consenting adults get up to in their free time is a matter for them. Even if there are husbands and wifes and kids involved, best let those families sort the problems out between them. So that Matt Hancock
Continue readingTweetbot 6 review: hello old friend, we might meet again, but not just yet
As a very heavy Twitter user, for years I was a fan of Tweetbot on iOS, an independent Twitter app made by Tapbots. Using an independent app made sense as I could configure how everything would display according to my
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