16th September – order O2 broadband and they send me a confirmation e-mail. 17th September they set up my direct debit. 24th September they activate the line, 2 days late, but not bad. The day after they even rather nauseatingly
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Grouping email accounts and checking them all with Gmail
OK, I have to admit it – the IMAP account on my shared hosting cannot cope with the quantity of e-mail I am receiving, and the size of the attachments I get. So it’s time to make use of the
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Amplifying an event through social media (or not) – lessons from #lab10
I’m a big fan of using social media – particularly Twitter (via one of more hash tags) and blogs – during large events and conferences. The event itself, the speakers’ presentations, are like a rock being dropped into a pool,
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Some thoughts on the Diane Abbott – David Miliband leadership result
Political Betting has raised the issue of whether David Miliband’s decision to get Diane Abbott onto the ballot paper in the end costed him the leadership. The line is that Abbott being on the ballot motivated more on the left
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European Social Democracy: The Path Back To Power (what the panellists should have said)
I’ve just sat through a largely uninspiring panel at Labour Conference entitled “European Social Democracy: The Path Back To Power”, organised by FEPS and EPLP. Roger Liddle chaired in his charming but rather bumbling manner, and the panellists were Philip
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David Miliband is a better fit for another international job – a job in the EU currently held by another Brit
James Kirkup on the Telegraph Blog has raised the interesting idea that David Miliband, pipped to the Labour leadership by his brother, might leave UK politics for the IMF. Kirkup says the info on this comes from Bagehot in The
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A new Germany-EU discourse
I heard a short speech in Berlin yesterday evening by Ulrike Guérot from the European Council on Foreign Relations at an event organised by Europa Union. The essential gist of her presentation was that, now, 20 years on since the
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Barroso bullshit bingo
At Bloggingportal we came up with the idea of having a laugh at the expense of our esteemed President, Jose Manuel Barroso with his “State of the European Union” speech by playing bullshit bingo. The entire speech is now available
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Oh, so Citzalia is all my fault
Aahmed ElAmin, one of the developers of Citzalia (whose words were followed hook, line and sinker by The Guardian) has penned his own side of the story at a website entitled The Royal Gazette. Odd location, and his approach to
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Why EU taxation is actually a good idea
Budget Commissioner, Janusz Lewandowski, has said he will present some options next month for how direct EU taxes could work. The story is covered by the BBC. Cue a load of instant complains, howls of derision etc., particularly from Brits.
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Campaigning for a PES primary
What should the Party of European Socialists do in 2014 to avoid a repeat of 2009’s disastrous European Parliament election results, and the mess over the dithering prior to 2009 that resulted in the PES not selecting a candidate to
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Handling a comms mess – Citzalia
My previous post about Citzalia has been creating waves in the small pond of EU debate throughout the day. The blog entry was first linked from Tim Worstall, then appeared in the Open Europe press review, and has then subsequently
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