If you’re looking for news about Baroness Ashton’s nomination for High Representative click here All of the analysis of Shriti Vadera’s move to some sort of G20 post has led to questions about what her departure means for Gordon Brown and for government. But what does it mean for the […]
I’m still on holiday in Egypt and a Labour friend of mine just sent me a text message informing me that Dizzy Thinks claims to have some sort of an exclusive linking Harriet Harman to June’s about coup against Gordon Brown – via me! What a load of complete and […]
At 0727 on 10th September an Intercity Express will depart from Gare du Midi, Brussels. Via Düsseldorf Airport I will end up later in the day in the 35ºC sunshine of Egypt, ready for a week of diving in Dahab. From there it’s to Berlin for the inline skate marathon, […]
I’m just home after having endured one of the most unpleasant experiences I can remember in an EU institution. Really remarkable. I’ve had meetings in the European Parliament on two consecutive days (yesterday and today) with two different British MEPs. When signing in for the visitor’s pass at the ASP […]
There’s an interesting article in Le Monde today speculating once more about a role for François Fillon as a possible candidate for the Presidency of the Commission. The story goes broadly like this: José Manuel Barroso secured the nomination of the Heads of State and Government in July Approval of […]
“The Taxpayers’ Alliance, the right wing pressure group, has been dealing with EU questions with a report entitled “EU Diplomats.” The report’s author, Lee Rotherham, is a well known right-leaning eurosceptic, and the report departs in a well worn vein: anything the European Union does is about creating a state, […]
I vividly remember car journeys through France with my family in the 1990s. As we headed north from Languedoc, travelling home at the end of a holiday, the only solace for my mother was the return of BBC Radio 4, available in long wave anywhere northwards of Bourges or Orléans. […]
The EP elections, the five year democratic interruption to the Brussels game, are long in the past. Everyone is back from their summer holidays, ready for a bout of jousting and positioning in that depressing and opaque game: how to put together a team of 27 Commissioners. The nomination of […]
Norway goes to the polls on 14th September and the election is being held at a time when Norway’s position in the world is in some question: what role for the oil rich country of 4.5 million people at the northern edge of Europe? The influence of the EU on […]
18 months ago I wrote a post about how I reckoned I had the ultimate home Mac network. Of course times change and things move on… so now I have the ultimate home network version 2.0. Why the change? Essentially I’ve moved flat and wanted to put all the tech […]
Thanks to Brussels Blogger I’ve come across the excellent MIT website ‘Personas’ website that analyses the sorts of things that an individual discusses and writes about online. My line is above, click for a larger version. I’m not too sure what the ‘illegal’ bit refers to, and I think the […]
Via Twitter my attention was drawn to this article in the Daily Mail about Tory toffs in OUCA behaving like racist idiots. Tell me what’s new, although this does seem more extreme than normal… But look at the sidebar of the Daily Mail website. Almost every picture is of some […]
