Jon Worth's Euroblog

18.10.2011 Brexit

LabourList | Without clarity, the EU referendum debate is dangerous

“It’s far from clear how Labour should deal with the growing argument about a referendum on Britain’s relationship with the European Union Today MPs on the Backbench Business Committee have agreed to debate and, crucially, to vote on whether the

18.10.2011 EU Politics

Malcolm Harbour’s delightful contradictions (but he’s not the only one)

Tory MEP Malcolm Harbour was on the second panel at the European Transport Forum, talking in broad terms about how the Single Market in transport is not yet complete. Nice soundbite, right? But what would completion of the Single Market

18.10.2011 EU Politics

If you want to ship some truck parts from Umeå to Gent… 3 changes of locomotive and 30km/h

I’m at European Transport Forum in Brussels, live blogging and live tweeting the event (tag: #ETF2011). I’m here at Cristina Riesen‘s initiative, and fellow bloggers Eurocentrique and Christian Wolmar are covering the event too.

17.10.2011 Technology

How to work with a web design freelancer

I have been working freelance for more than 4 years now. Yet many of the same difficulties keep on appearing. So here’s my slightly tongue-in-cheek guide about how to work with me, to make sure everything runs smoothly.

13.10.2011 UK Politics

The Atheist Bus Campaign has re-framed the UK’s ‘debate’ on religion

The Atheist Bus Campaign is the biggest thing I’ve ever done, and may prove to be the biggest thing I ever will do. It was more than three years ago that the original campaign started, and it still lives on.

12.10.2011 EU Politics / UK Politics

Tories seem to have found someone even more barking than Roger Helmer

Today’s good news: Roger Helmer is standing down as a Member of the European Parliament. He says its because he disagrees with nine-tenths of Tory policy, and his statements have become more and more shrill and reactionary over the years.

12.10.2011 EU Politics

LabourList | Introducing the new Tory MEP

“Today’s good news: Roger Helmer is standing down as a Member of the European Parliament. He says its because he disagrees with nine-tenths of Tory policy, and his statements have become more and more shrill and reactionary over the years.

12.10.2011 EU Politics

Wifi in the EU quarter, Brussels

There’s been a bit of discussion on Twitter this morning with @megankenna and @thefashioncloud at the prohibitively high cost of Wifi in and around the EU quarter in Brussels. Many conferences are organised in hotels and the cost for wifi

11.10.2011 EU Politics

LabourList | A cautious welcome for primaries in the French Socialist Party

“Just as une hirondelle ne fait pas le printemps (one swallow does not make a summer), une primaire ne refait pas un parti politique (one primary does not remake a party). But looking back at yesterday’s first ever US-style primary

10.10.2011 Technology

The cheapest way to get an iPhone 4S in the UK

What’s the cheapest way to get an iPhone 4S legitimately in the UK? That’s the conundrum that’s been confronting me for the past few days. I’ve been on a £30/month contract with O2 for my old iPhone 3G, but I’m

04.10.2011 UK Politics

Nick Pisa: even worse than before

A quite incredible failure of journalism overnight from Nick Pisa, journalist of the Daily Mail, writing a piece saying Amanda Knox was guilty of murder when she was actually innocent. More on the issue from Malcolm Coles and Anna Raccoon.