On suspicion of incitement to racial hatred. Coming soon: Murderer arrested on suspicion of killing someone, Rapist arrested on suspicion of having sex with someone against their will etc. etc. Oh, sorry, I forgot. The BNP aren’t racist anymore, are … Continue reading →

Can someone please explain to me how the Conservative party’s backing for ID cards can be tallied with their claims that they want to cut back on “nanny state” big government, save money, and their age-old ideology of promoting individual … Continue reading →

Superb stuff via Martin Stabe: Pub landlord in EU flag row With a heading like that, and armed with the perennial assumption that pubs are often home to rather more “traditionalist” (to put it nicely) views on national life, you’d … Continue reading →

Jaques Derrida on the meaning of Europe Former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard on the democratisation of Europe Commentary Magazine on The Islamisation of Europe (But the Times takes the opposite view) North Sea Diaries on how the EU is … Continue reading →

I’ve been having an interesting discussion with a chap called Ken in the comments section of my Euromyths post down the page. I’d be interested to hear some more opinions, as it’s certainly helped me clarify (as much as it … Continue reading →

Hmmm… Nominations now open, you say? Hint, hint…

An interesting post speculating on the potential future expansion of the EU that I’d missed over at The Yorkshire Ranter, which follows on from the Washinton post article I quoted from the other day, and which was picked up fairly … Continue reading →

Interesting tidbit via Eurosavant – the UN special envoy to Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, an Algerian, has apparently told a Dutch newspaper that (speaking in a personal, not professional capacity), thanks to the current chaos on the ground in Iraq, there … Continue reading →

So, the wording has been set, and unlike the 1975 Referendum is not a blatant attempt to distort the results. You’d think the anti-EU lot would be happy. But no. EU Referendum put up a post last night about British … Continue reading →

Toby at Straight Banana continues his quest to disprove Euromyths. If pro-Europeans really have to go into this much detail each time, we could be in trouble. There are hundreds of these things, and some of them are truly barking. … Continue reading →

Bloody hell. Someone’s been busy… This is one of the longest lists of political blogs I’ve seen, and seems to be getting updated fairly regularly. It’s even got a bit of indication as to what they’re about (in some cases … Continue reading →