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.
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Security in the people’s Parliament – ha, ha, what a joke
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.
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Fillon to be the knight in shining armour to save the Commission?
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
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Left Foot Forward | EU’s €3.4bn for diplomacy is value for money
“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:
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BBC for Brits abroad
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,
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Nomination of the Commission: left backs the right, and wonders why it has no message
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
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The 3 crucial ingredients for the accession of Norway to the EU
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
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The Ultimate Home Network 2.0
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
Continue readingSo I am really mixed up online
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
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Racist jokes are unacceptable but tarted up women in the sidebar are?
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
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Liveblogging Bruegel “Memos to the new Commission- Europe’s economic priorities 2010-2015”
*** HIT REFRESH IN YOUR BROWSER TO SEE THE LATEST UPDATES *** Panel Ratings: -> Andre Sapir 7/10 – clearly sharp, spoke well, wish he had critiqued the politicians too -> Elmar Brok 5/10 – sometimes clear, other times clearly
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My handwriting… as a font
Via a friend’s suggestion on Facebook I’ve come across fontcapture.com, a site that allows you to turn your handwriting into a font. My first effort is above (or here to download if you really want to) – I’m not sure
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