“Right now in Brussels the heads of the 27 national governments of the European Union’s member states will be milling around. Gordon Brown will be lobbying for Tony Blair, Herman Van Rompuy will be trying to persuade people he is
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Atheist Bus Campaign – the sequel!
Launched today!
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It’s time for a Gender Balanced Commission
The Treaty of Lisbon has been ratified and Heads of State and Government are getting together on Thursday this week to try to hammer out a deal on the EU’s top positions – President of the European Council and High
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Stephen Wall might be a brilliant boffin, but he’s not the person to make a citizens’ case for the EU
As quoted in this piece at EUObserver: A former British EU ambassador, Stephen Wall, also poured cold water on the scheme, saying that the appointment is about balancing national and political interests in Europe, rather than individual merit. “Given that
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Berliner Mauer: no fanfare
No fanfare on this blog about today’s 20 year commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not because I’m not super happy to commemorate such an event, but because understanding the division of Berlin, the division of Germany, and
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Live blog: Reporting forbidden? Freedom of the press and personal rights
I’m at the conference “Media and politics – the tension between freedom of the press and personal rights in print media and the internet” (more here) – refresh the page for the latest entries. 1921 – Hajo Friedrich is making
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Henry Porter in The Observer: you are a lazy f**kwit too
It’s not just the Daily Mail at fault for utterly lazy, shit and f**king crap journalism about European Politics. Henry Porter in today’s Observer is horribly, dreadfully, shockingly awful: When the European Court of Human Rights announces a ban on
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The Nick Pisa example: get your attack in first and Google does the rest
One of the major frustrations about the UK mainstream media’s coverage of EU affairs is that even if an article is eventually corrected on a newspaper’s website, or a correction appears in the printed press, the damage is already done
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Some questions for David Cameron today
It has been widely trailed that David Cameron is going to outline his new European policy today, after capitulating yesterday on the Treaty of Lisbon issue. The feral members of the Tory Party are baying for blood, so what is
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Cameron’s referendum travails make him look an idiot
David Cameron, as quoted on the BBC News website today: It looks like this treaty is no longer going to be a treaty, it looks like it is going to become part of European law and that is going to
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Nick Pisa, Daily Mail journalist, lazy f**kwit
It’s not often that something makes me angry enough to resort to language befitting of Devil’s Kitchen, but Googling for news of the recent European Court of Human Rights case about crucifixes in Italian schools brought me to this article
Continue readingSome examples of the power of Youtube
In the presentations I make about the impact of the internet on politics and society, Youtube often gets a mention. Although not all explicitly political, these are 3 of my favourites. Think of what you could do with some inspiration
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