Nosemonkey's EUtopia

In search of a European identity

August 31, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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Charles Clarke: hypocrite

Today: “Infighting within the Labour Party will help the Conservatives at the next general election, former Home Secretary Charles Clarke has said.”Two months ago: “In what amounts to one of the most public rows among senior Blairites since 1997, Mr … Continue reading

August 30, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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“Une sorte de maladie de langueur, de fatigue generalisee”

Thus spake France’s Minister for European Affairs, Catherine Colonna, giving her opinion of the state of the EU to the assembled ranks of the French Ambassadorial elite. Packed with (if we’re honest, fairly astute) criticisms of the current way the … Continue reading

August 29, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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Koizumi and dictators

Considering that Japan’s own Tony Blair, Junichiro Koizumi, is due to step down as Prime Minister in a few weeks, it’s hard to know what impact his current sucking up to murderous Central Asian dictators will have on the constitutionally … Continue reading

August 28, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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A reminder

Our man Worstall reminds me that our man Barlow is still slogging away on his John O-Groats to Land’s End walk in aid of the Brain Research Trust (follow his progress here) – which reminded me that I had a … Continue reading

August 26, 2006
by Nosemonkey
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New blood blog roundup

Up now at The Sharpener – some good’uns in there, even if it did take me rather longer than I’d hoped to get the thing up…