This post, over at my new place, pretty much sums it up. Warning – long…
November 19, 2016
by Nosemonkey
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November 16, 2016
by Nosemonkey
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If anyone’s still paying any attention – new blog
You may be interested in a new blog I’ve set up – partly to play with Medium, partly to order my own thoughts post-Brexit and post-Trump. Yes, it’s a bit political. And it may evolve into something else – because … Continue reading
December 11, 2015
by Nosemonkey
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On Anti-EU Lies and Retiring from Blogging
Yesterday I returned from work to find an anti-EU leaflet on the doorstep. So you can imagine my surprise to find it was covered in an array of spurious bullshit. Let’s take a look, “point” by “point”: 1) EU cost. … Continue reading
April 14, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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The EU, the British media, the BBC, and “balance”
An email comes in – I thought I may as well turn the response into a post: “I’m a journalism student working on an article about British press coverage of the EU. I’m particularly interested in the spiral of scant … Continue reading
March 1, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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If I were to write a post about the Ukraine situation this evening, it’d be much like this
Putin’s willy-waving shows his failure – Russia is not an attractive option. He can only win friends by force. This is a sign of weakness, not strength. Good piece, worth a read.
March 1, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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If I were to write a post on the current Ukraine situation, this would be it
Good stuff. Only thing I’d add is a general attack on a whole load of journalists and news organisations who should have known better than to repeat unverified information and allegations from blatantly biased sources (on both sides) in an … Continue reading
February 7, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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What are the implications of the German Constitutional Court’s OMT ruling?
The ruling – which happened only in the last few minutes – likely means that, until the European Court of Justice has made a final ruling (which could take months/years), the European Central Bank will be prevented from bailing out … Continue reading
January 24, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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Would you vote for a party with no stated policies or manifesto?
I mean yes, we know that in this era of coalitions and compromise, manifesto pledges are not what they once were. But it’s often in the details that you can get a proper grasp of what a party truly stands … Continue reading
January 23, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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Ukraine uprisings: News coverage of events in far-away lands, 2004 vs 2014
The pictures coming out of Kiev yesterday (decent galley here) gave me – and no doubt plenty of others – a bit of a flashback to November/December 2004’s Orange Revolution. The riots are in protest against the same president and … Continue reading
January 22, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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The current state of French politics and its implications for the 2014 European Parliament elections
In an EU election year, the current polutics of France is always an important factor in predicting the futre makeup of the European Parliament. Not only is France one of the largest countries, so with one of the largest delegations … Continue reading
January 21, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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How have the Euro and austerity affected economic recovery?
It’s an important question in a European Parliament election year – especially one where many seem to be planning on punishing the EU for the perceived failures of its leadership and conception during the Eurocrisis (even though, y’know, the European … Continue reading
January 20, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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How to work out who to vote (and not vote) for in the 2014 European Parliament elections – Part 1
No matter your political persuasion, this is not as easy a decision as you may think. I supposedly know my stuff on this, and I haven’t decided yet. First things first – what are we voting for? To answer this … Continue reading
January 9, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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Britain: Hiding under a duvet of doubt and debt
Genuinely superb column by Mary Riddell in the Telegraph today. Read in full. Considering the Telegraph’s decades of hostility to the EU (it’s the paper that employs the hard anti-EU Tory Tea Partier Dan Hannan, after all, and owners the … Continue reading
January 9, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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The EU and global economic growth / convergence
One of the criticisms that still gets leveled at the EU is that the Common Market is a rich kids club, and that the Common Agrigultural Policy and free movement of goods and services within the EU puts non-EU (and … Continue reading